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Taizé disputes claim founder ‘converted' to Catholicism Describes "originality of Brother Roger's search"

The Taizé community in eastern France has denied claims reported in the French newspaper Le Monde that its Swiss-born Protestant founder, Brother Roger Schutz, who died last year, had made a secret conversion to Roman Catholicism.

“This article gave credence to and reproduced the claims of a small newsletter issued by Catholic traditionalist circles that misrepresents Brother Roger’s true intentions and defames his memory,” Brother Thomas of the Taizé community told Ecumenical News International by e-mail.