Word: bernardine
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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...
...church torn by internal dissent, Bernardin is not as easily identified with either church wing as were his two predecessors, Detroit's John Cardinal Dearden, a favorite of liberals, and Philadelphia's John Cardinal Krol, a respected conservative. Theologically moderate but socially progressive, Bernardin is perhaps best known as a healer-a conciliator who is engagingly willing to hear all sides of an argument...
...Bernardin's tolerance of divergent views may well grow out of his background. The son of an immigrant stonemason from northern Italy, he grew up in heavily Protestant South Carolina, where, he told TIME Correspondent Richard Ostling, "I learned early in life how to live with people whose beliefs differ from my own." He attended public high school and the University of South Carolina before entering St. Mary...
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...