Vietnamese Cardinal Francois Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan receives the eucharistic gifts at a church service in Rome Oct. 14, 2001. The head of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace died Sept. 16 in Rome after an extended battle with cancer. He was 74. (CNS photo by Alessia Giuliani, CPP) (Sept. 17, 2002) See OBIT-THUAN Sept. 17, 2002.