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Father Peter Gumpel, the memory of a friend

On Wednesday 12 October 2022 the Jesuit Fr. Peter (aka Kurt) Gumpel has ended his earthly exodus, and has reached the Father’s House. He was 98 years old. For some time he had been hospitalized in the infirmary of the Residenza San Pietro Canisio in Rome. I visited him periodically, and stayed with him for … Read more

He was 98 years old. Farewell to Gumpel, the Jesuit who “defended” Pius XII

by Michael Miller

A portrait of Father Gumpel -. He felt he was somehow “The living memory of Pius XII”, the Pope whom he had met “closely” as a young Jesuit teacher at the Germanic College and of whom he often evoked “the affability and the ability to listen”. But above all he considered himself the last witness … Read more