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...Joseph Bernardin takes over a huge, troubled archdiocese...
...arrived at O'Hare Airport last week with a smile, a wave and a corny line: "I feel so welcome, I bought a one-way ticket." Welcome he was. The 2,374,000 member Archdiocese of Chicago celebrated as Joseph Louis Bernardin, 54, proceeded through the weeklong round of rites that marked his installation as archbishop. Already one of U.S. Roman Catholicism's handful of most important leaders, Bernardin (pronounced Burr-nuh-deen) is taking charge of the nation's largest archdiocese. In time he will be named a Cardinal, the first in the U.S. of Italian...
...Bernardin's new domain is also one of the church's most demoralized. Long before the Second Vatican Council, the archdiocese led the nation in liturgical and pastoral innovations, social action and intellectual debate. But that spirit waned under the conservative leadership of John Cardinal Cody, who was archbishop from 1965 until his death last April. Cody was an old-style autocrat who alienated large groups of Catholics. He spent diocesan money, closed inner-city schools and reassigned priests with little or no consultation. In later years he became increasingly isolated from his clergymen, nuns and laity...
...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...
...initial draft, the Bernardin panel built upon the hierarchy's briefer statement in 1976 against the arms race. The drafters unanimously agreed on: 1) a condemnation of any first use of nuclear weapons or the threat of first use; 2) a ban on deployment of such weapons against civilian populations, even in retaliation, and even against military targets if massive civilian casualties would result; 3) a call for an immediate multilateral freeze (without using that political label) in weapons production and deployment; and 4) experimental disarmament steps by the U.S. alone to see whether the Soviets would join...