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...member of the U.S. delegation to the Synod of Bishops in Rome this autumn, the Archbishop of Cincinnati earned a signal honor: he was the only bishop to be elected on the first ballot to the planning council for the next Synod. Last week Joseph L. Bernardin, who at 46 is one of the nation's youngest archbishops, received an even more important accolade. In Washington, D.C., at their annual meeting, the 248 U.S. bishops present elected him the next president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, the collective voice of the U.S. hierarchy...
Seminary in Baltimore. Ordained in 1952, he rose rapidly to responsibility, and was consecrated bishop in 1966 as auxiliary to Atlanta Archbishop Paul Hallinan. Two years later, on Hallinan's recommendation, NCCB President Dearden picked Bernardin as general secretary of the hierarchy's staff in Washington, a job that made him well known among U.S. bishops...
Pope Paul named Bernardin Archbishop of Cincinnati in 1972. He has headed the 19-county archdiocese and its 511,000 Catholics with remarkable aplomb, steering a hazardous course between the church's sometimes apoplectic right and its sometimes radical left. For example, he has left the choice of religious curriculum-often a source of bitter quarrels between liberals and conservatives-to individual parishes...
Some who otherwise support Bernardin wonder whether his cautious decision making and cultivation of approval may not be signs of overweening ambition. His defenders contend that if the archbishop is ambitious, his zeal is for the welfare of his church, not himself. An almost compulsive worker, Bernardin rises at 6 a.m. to put in a 17-hour day of diocesan business and prayer. But his work is not all done at a desk: he enjoys spending many hours in informal but often serious talk with his fellow clergy and lay people...
...bent that helped Cyprus gain independence from the British in the '50s, the world was appalled by the naming of Nikos Sampson, a gunman for the notorious EOKA movement, as Cyprus' President earlier this year. When the now ousted Greek military junta installed Sampson in place of Archbishop Makarios, it took the first step on its path to ruin. Sad though it may seem, the world appears willing to forget-if not forgive-most crimes of terrorism and to eventually honor those it once called criminal. It must first, however, have some assurance that the terrorist...