Word: bernardin
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...Bernardin has certainly moved with dispatch to ease the problems and stresses left by Cody, who was not only autocratic and aloof but was plagued by personal and financial scandal during the last year of his life. Barely an hour on the job, Bernardin made a luncheon date with a pastor from a struggling black church who had been trying for two years to get permission parishioners Chicago nuns from Mother Teresa's order, the Missionaries of Charity, to work among his parish poor. Bernardin not only gave the venture his enthusiastic endorsement but volunteered to write Mother Teresa...
Long demoralized by Cody's indifference, Chicago's 2,468 priests have suddenly found that their opinions matter on such issues as financial accountability and the church's social mission. In the new heady atmosphere of collegiality, there is talk that Bernardin plans to convene an archdiocesan synod (the last one took place...
...stonecutter immigrant from northern Italy, Bernardin was the only Catholic boy on the block in his home town of Columbia, S.C. Of necessity, childhood became a venture in grass-roots ecumenism. He recalls, "I used to go to the Bible school that the Baptist church sponsored, especially on the days when they gave out ice cream...
...father died when Bernardin was six, and the boy, his younger sister and their mother moved in with a series of aunts and uncles. Intent on becoming a doctor, he finished one year as a pre-med student at the University of South Carolina. Then Bernardin surprised his family by deciding to enter the priesthood. Says he: "I don't want to sound dramatic, but it must have been the Lord. I had a very definite feeling that I was being called to the priesthood...
...ordained in 1952 and rose rapidly in the hierarchy. In 1966 Bernardin became the youngest bishop in the country as an auxiliary to Archbishop Paul Hallinan of Atlanta, a noted civil rights-era liberal. In 1972 Bernardin was named Archbishop of Cincinnati and was elected president of the U.S. bishops' conference from...