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...Joseph Bernardin, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Chicago, was visiting his 77-year-old mother at a home for the aged run by the Little Sisters of the Poor when the news was announced. "Have you heard?" he asked. "Yes," replied his mother, "you're a Cardinal. I love you very much. Do good, darling." Bernardin promised he would...
...There is a real spiritual hunger on the part of people," says Bernardin. "They are not reaching out to me. They are reaching out to the Lord. Perhaps there is a personal dimension, but I am just a symbol. In no way, I want to emphasize this, is this a reaching out to me personally. I have to remind myself of this every...
...Bernardin, of course, has never deviated from papal teachings on such controversial doctrinal issues as birth control and the ordination of women. At the same time, he has been careful to dissociate himself from some of the more extreme activities of right-to-life groups. He recently crossed a pro-life picket line to attend a fund-raising event sponsored by the United Way. He later explained that Catholics should not withhold funds from all United Way charities just because some of them oppose the church's teaching on abortion. Says Dan Daley, a Catholic activist who heads...
Bearing in mind the mistakes of the past, Bernardin says that he has no intention to "lord it over others." In his daily business Bernardin dresses more like an ordinary parish priest than a prospective prince of the church. He has invited two priests and three nuns to share the cavernous brick mansion he inherited from Cody, and prefers to drive his silver Oldsmobile himself, all in keeping with his notion of a no-frills clergy. Explains Bernardin: "I consider myself a servant first of the Lord, then a servant of others for the sake of the Lord...
...ponders the challenges facing modern Catholicism, Bernardin feels that the time has come for lay people to take more responsibility. During the course of a workday that begins with prayer before dawn and often runs past 10 at night, there is simply not enough time for Bernardin to be all things to all people. Associates say he is embarrassed because he cannot reply personally to the 25 speaking, social and religious invitations he receives each...