I have never lived in Paris, but I accompanied Raimundo many times to this city where books are sold in stalls along the Seine river. He met the French Jesuit Henri de Lubac there in 1950. Since there was a difference of age and experience between the two men, Panikkar treated de Lubac with respect. In the period when Panikkar began to be interested in de Lubac’s work, the latter was branded by the ecclesiastical authorities as a ‘modernist’ and he was no longer able to teach in Catholic universities. This did not stop Raimundo from meeting him and reading his work.
