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Article: WORLD MOURNS CARDINAL BERNARDIN LIFE OF PEACE, LEGACY OF GRACE.(NEWS)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- November 15, 1996
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Byline: Laurie Petrie Post staff reporter
Throughout his remarkable life, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin repeatedly found himself in a position of influence at the right place and at the right time.
He lived in the public eye, turning the many challenges he faced into opportunities to teach, to lead, to change hearts and minds and, in the end, to show what is meant by faith.
Many consider him to have been the most influential American religious leader of our time. The influence grew in the final years of his life as everything he stood for was put to the test. He faced the accusation that he sexually abused former seminary student Steven Cook and he ...