ACI Prensa Staff, Sep 13, 2025 / 08:00 am

The Archdiocese of Paraná in Argentina has published the spiritual testament of Cardinal Estanislao Karlic one month after his death.

The prelate was one of the authors of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and died on Aug. 8 at the age of 99.

The archdiocese noted that the testament was written by Karlic at the House of Mary of the Benedictine monastery Our Lady of Paraná in Aldea María Luisa during the solemnity of the Nativity of Jesus in 2024. Karlic served as archbishop of the archdiocese from 1983 to 2003.

In his opening lines, the Argentine cardinal wrote: “The truth of the Catholic faith is what I confess as light, the light with which I ask the Lord to illuminate me in making this testament. I place myself before divine mercy, pray

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