Remembering Joaquín Navarro-Valls
(Vatican Radio) The former Director of the Press Office of
the Holy See, Joaquín Navarro-Valls, passed away on Wednesday, after a battle
with pancreatic cancer. He was 80 years old.
Navarro trained as a medical doctor with a specialization in
psychiatry, as well as in journalism, moving to Rome in the early 1970’s,
becoming a foreign correspondent and eventually being elected president of the
foreign press association in the city.
In 1984, he accepted an offer from Pope St. John Paul II to
become the new head of the Press Office of the Holy See, a position he held
until 2006.
A statement on the website of Opus Dei, of which Navarro was
a member, informs that a vigil is scheduled for Thursday, July 6, starting at
4pm in the sacristy of the basilica of the church of St. Eugene (Viale delle
Belle Arti 10, Rome), and that Msgr. Mariano Fazio, Vicar General of the
Prelature of Opus Dei, will celebrate a funeral Mass for him on Friday, July 7
at 11am Rome Time.
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