Cardinal Bernardin: Easing Conflicts - And Battling for the Soul of American Catholicism - Hardcover

Kennedy, Eugene C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0933893981 ISBN 13: 9780933893986

Publisher: UNKNO, 1989

Synopsis

Traces the life of the influential American cardinal and describes how the Church is facing the great issues of modern times

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From Publishers Weekly:

The life of Chicago's cardinal Joseph Bernardin is examined with admiration and an insider's bias by Kennedy, a former priest who chairs the department of psychology at Loyola University of Chicago. He characterizes Bernardin "in his mannered, talented ways, reluctant to hurt others," as masterly in his capacity to accommodate tensions between tradition and growth in American Catholicism. Kennedy follows Bernardin's developing leadership in such thorny patches as his predecessor's scandal-touched administration of diocesan finances, his articulation as head of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops of Catholic positions on issues such as abortion and nuclear armament. Kennedy's portrait reveals a modest man, a priest who may have "set the American church on a revitalized course." Photos not seen by PW. 60,000 first printing; author tour.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: UNKNO
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0933893981
• ISBN 13: 9780933893986
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 327