ROME — Cardinal Luis Pascual Dri, the Argentine priest whom Pope Francis held up because the mannequin confessor, has died in Buenos Aires at age 98, the Vatican stated Wednesday.
Dri, a Capuchin friar, died Monday within the Argentine capital, the place his funeral was being celebrated Wednesday, the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano stated.
Dri was made a cardinal by Francis in 2023 on the age of 96 in recognition of his lifetime of labor listening to confessions of the devoted and allotting merciful absolutions. Up till his loss of life, he labored because the confessor on the Our Woman of Pompeii parish in Buenos Aires.
Francis ceaselessly referred to Dri throughout his preach and held him up as a mannequin confessor for different clergymen, urging them to at all times be merciful within the confessional. For Francis, the sacrament of reconciliation was notably vital and he urged clergymen to at all times pardon those that search forgiveness.
He as soon as quoted Dri as saying he was so prepared to dispense absolutions as a result of God himself “gave me a nasty instance” in forgiving all his sins.
Pope Leo XIV, who was made a cardinal throughout the identical consistory as Dri, issued a message of condolences Wednesday signed by the Vatican secretary of state. In it, he recalled Dri as a “devoted pastor, who was so expensive to Pope Francis, and who for thus a few years gave his life to the service of God and the church as a confessor.”
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