In his homily at a Mass for the repose of the soul of Fr Jacques Hamel, Archbishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney, a theologian and member of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said the priest “died in odium fidei, that is in hatred of the faith”.
“This is a term Catholics use to describe the characteristic death of a martyr, as one who dies for his or her faith, and because of that faith," the archbishop said.
Archbishop Fisher welcomed the solidarity shown by French Jewish and Muslim organisations, and said the murder was an attack on France, on civilisation and all religion.
