CSU grandee and self-confident Catholic: Bavaria says goodbye to Alois Glück. Politics, church and society bowed with a moving requiem and state act to a politician who reached the hearts of people across all party and denominational boundaries.
“Blessed are those who make peace, for they will be called children of God,” it said in the Gospel - the cardinal had specifically chosen the Sermon on the Mount as a requiem for his long-time companion and comrade-in-arms.