Selected Works of Joseph Cardinal Bernardin: Homilies and Teaching Documents: 01 - Tapa dura

Selected Works of Joseph Cardinal Bernardin: Volume 1

Joseph Cardinal Bernardin is widely regarded as having had more impact on the Catholic Church in the United States than any other bishop this century. By the time of his death in 1996 he had attracted the respect and affection of millions around the world. Selected Works of Joseph Cardinal Bernardin provides in two volumes the "essential" Bernardin for those interested in the faith, ecclesial vision, and pastoral insights of this great church leader. The first volume, Homilies and Teaching Documents, captures the care and sensitivity with which Cardinal Bernardin carried out his teaching ministry as Archbishop of Chicago. It consists of his pastoral letters, reflections, and statements on liturgy, ministry, the Church, health care, religious education, Christology, consecrated life, AIDS, the Catholic Charismatic Movement, the permanent diaconate, and youth. The volume also includes Bernardin's interventions at four Synods of Bishops. Clergy, lay ministers and leaders will find the selected homilies, on a wide range of subjects, to be of particular value to their life and ministry."Reading these pages provides occasion to drink of the same spiritual springs that gave life and light to Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, indeed to partake of the same Christian spirituality as his." From the foreword by Roger Cardinal Mahony Archbishop of Los Angeles"This collection . . . provides a record of some of the best thinking about the Catholic Church in America in the post-Vatican II era. A great achievement." Robert Schreiter, C.PP.S. Founding Director The Cardinal Bernardin Center for Theology and Ministry"Joseph Cardinal Bernardin was a peerless teacher of the Catholic faith. These documents are an illustration of the range of his pastoral service to the mission of the truth. I was privileged to be his auxiliary bishop during that period when he composed most of these documents. I remember with respect how he always approached his office of teacher with the greatest care. These documents shed light on both his spiritual wisdom as well as his prudent insight into the life of the Church." Wilton D. Gregory Bishop of Belleville"The Selected Works of Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, Volume 1 will be a significant addition to any serious student of post-conciliar Church life in the United States. This first volume, focusing on the Cardinal's teaching documents, shows Joseph Bernardin as the wise, kind and thoughtful shepherd we remember. In his own words, we recall the wisdom, caution and occasional daring, and practical pastoral knowledge of his years as bishop. I suspect that many of us will have recourse to these works for ideas and initiatives for our own ministry. Joseph Cardinal Bernardin's ministry lives on in his own words." Robert N. Lynch Bishop of St. Petersburg"This excellent first volume is almost literally a treasure trove of theology and its application to our daily lives of growth in understanding of the Lord, ourselves and each other." Fr. Kevin Shanley, O.Carm. Catholic Explorer