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[The Church of England Newspaper] April 7, 2005--It is a privilege to add our own condolences to Roman Catholics at the loss of their charismatic global leader, and to record the debt of gratitude to this great Christian leader for all he did to uphold the values of the Gospel in an ethically chaotic world. His was an extraordinary ministry, quantitatively and qualitatively. The sheer length of his pontificate meant that he was simply part of the mental furniture of world religion and politics. His success in travelling to all corners of the globe from his earliest years projected his presence in a personal fashion to all continents and cultures, and only age and illness stopped this continuing. His knowledge of many languages meant that he could communicate across boundaries in a quite unique way, accommodating his message to the local language, ‘the language understood of the people’, in Reformation parlance. Hence while he reinforced a ‘centralised’ system from Rome, he offset this by his enthusiasm to visit local churches and seek to strengthen their faith in their own languages and customs.
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