Cardinal Reinhard Marx – the Pope’s Man for EuropeReinhard Marx, who turned 60 in September, is used to being the youngest among his peers, writes Christa Pongratz-Lippitt. When he became Bishop of Trier, Germany’s oldest diocese, in 2001, he was only 48, the youngest bishop in Germany at the time. He got his red hat shortly after turning 57 – to become the youngest member of the College of Cardinals. Last April, a few months before his sixtieth birthday, he was the European prelate appointed to Pope Francis’s advisory Council of Cardinals (C8), of which he is the youngest member. Marx was born at Geseke, a small town in North Rhine-Westphalia, 12 miles west of Paderborn. His father was a master locksmith. He wanted to become a priest from an early age
21 November 2013, The Tablet
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