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Article: Bernardin helps to answer: 'What's a priest?' (late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin)(Column)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- January 17, 1997
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When I told my children that we were going to Grandma's house to have dinner with a priest friend, I was surprised by the response: "Mom. what's a priest?" Actually this question has been on my mind, too, both because of Cardinal Joseph Bernardin's life and death and because in my parish we are wrestling with that question in the context of long-term visioning.
We are a small inner-city parish known for our human service programs, social justice orientation and grassroots worship style. We're trying to be "proactive" rather than "reactive" about the inevitability of someday losing our current pastor, who shares our understanding of worship and sacrament. We are ...