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Interview With Taizé Founder's Successor

TAIZÉ, France, AUG. 16, 2006 (Zenit.org).- "A year of mourning but also a year of grace," is how Brother Alois Loeser describes the year since the death of Brother Roger Schutz, founder of the ecumenical Taizé Community.

Brother Roger was stabbed to death Aug. 16, 2005, by an apparently mentally-disturbed woman at an evening prayer service attended by 2,500 people in the Burgundy region in France. He was 90.

Brother Alois, 52, who succeeded Brother Roger as prior of the community, is a native of Bavaria.

In this translation of an interview given to the Italian newspaper Avvenire, Brother Alois describes Taizé's journey during the first year after losing its founder.

Read the interview at Zenit