The Gift of Peace: Personal Reflections

Joseph Cardinal Bernardin

ISBN 10: 0829409556 / ISBN 13: 9780829409550

Verlag: Loyola Press, 1997

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0829409556-3-19985947

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In a series of personal reflections, the late Chicago cardinal shares his experiences over the last three years as he struggled with terminal illness, found peace as he approached the end of his own life, and ministered to other terminally ill patients. 50,000 first printing. $60,000 ad/promo. UP.

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Joseph Cardinal Bernadin was born in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1928. He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Charleston in 1952 and served as an Auxiliary Bishop of Atlanta (1966-68), general secretary of the U.S. bishops' conference in Wash., D.C. (1968-72), Archbishop of Cincinnati (1972-82), President of the bishops' conference (1974-77), and Archbishop of Chicago (1982-96). He became a cardinal in 1983. He chaired the U.S. bishops' committee that drafted a pastoral letter on war and peace and often articulated the need for a consistent ethic of life. Cardinal Bernadin was widely respected for his gentleness, his spirituality, and his ability to reconcile. He received the Medal of Freedom at the White House two months before he died of pancreatic cancer.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Gift of Peace: Personal Reflections
Verlag: Loyola Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good