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...scandal has also brought a wave of unwelcome attention to the Vatican bank's American-born president, Archbishop Paul Marcinkus. So far no one has openly accused Marcinkus of any illegal acts. But he is one of three Vatican officials under investigation by Italian authorities, who have indicated that Marcinkus could ultimately be charged. Serious questions are also being raised about his judgment and competence, specifically about his willingness to let the Vatican bank and its good name be used by international wheeler-dealers. At least eleven other official inquiries into Banco Ambrosiano's affairs are under...
Bernardin displayed an exactly opposite personal style during his decade as Archbishop of Cincinnati. He took daily walks downtown and often chatted with people around Fountain Square. Motorists waiting at red lights were were often often surprised to see the cleric also waiting patiently for the green behind the wheel of his 1981 Oldsmobile. Bernardin not only shunned the services of a chauffeur but also sold off the archbishop's mansion and moved into a three-room rectory apartment. He also wrote a regular column on church and social issues for the diocesan weekly, then published letters disputing...
...archbishop has always sought to be a pastor as well as a bureaucrat. A few years ago, he began awakening at 6 a.m. instead of 7 a.m. in order to get in an extra hour of prayer. On one occasion a friend phoned him in the middle of the night seeking a priest who could hear the confession of an anguished wayward Catholic. Bernardin turned up, but was introduced as "Father" to spare the penitent any embarrassment...
...archbishop developed his knack for high-level church politics without ever studying in Rome and attended public as well as parochial schools as a boy in Columbia, S.C. His father, a stonecutter from northern Italy, died when Joseph was six, and his mother supported the family as a seamstress. In 1945 Bernardin left the University of South Carolina, then entered a seminary. He returned home in 1952 as a protégé of liberal Bishop Paul Hallinan...
...John McDermott, "He's coming into the wake of a disaster, and there is so much good will and hope that he will succeed that he has a lot going for him." Mayor Jane Byrne immediately pronounced, "He is very definitely going to be a people's archbishop...