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TOP STORY: PROFILE: Mobile archbishop takes on the search for Catholic `common ground’
c. 1996 Religion News Service
MOBILE, Ala. _ Priestly celibacy. Gay rights. Feminism. Birth control. Liberation theology. Welfare reform. In vitro fertilization. Euthanasia.
These are some of the issues that the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin said were fragmenting the Catholic chu...
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Archbishop Oscar H. Lipscomb: A life in the church
c. 1996 Religion News Service
_ Born: 1931 in Mobile.
_ Education: St. Patrick's Catholic School; McGill Institute; St. Bernard College in Cullman, Ala.; North American College, Rome; Gregorian University, Rome; M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Catholic University, Washington.
- Ordaine...
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Leaders and laity looking for common ground
c. 1996 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ In addition to Archbishop Oscar H. Lipscomb, Cardinal Bernardin appointed the following people to the Common Ground Project: - _ Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles
- Sister Doris Gottemoeller, president, Sisters of Mercy of the Americas
- T...
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NEWS STORY: LUTHERANS AND EPISCOPALIANS: Lutheran and Episcopal bishops thrash out unity proposal
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WHITE HAVEN, Pa. _ At a critical moment near the end of the historic six-day joint meeting of the bishops of the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), the Lutherans sent what amounted to a small valentine to the Episcop...
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NEWS STORY: Church, nation bid farewell to Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin
c. 1996 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ The church he loved and the nation whose public policy he sought to influence for a quarter of a century said farewell Wednesday (Nov. 20) to Chicago's Roman Catholic Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin.
With his friend and colleague Cardinal Roger...
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TOP STORY: BISHOPS END MEETING: Spirit of Bernardin permeates bishops meeting
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ From an opening prayer as he lay dying, to the meeting's final debate on a restructuring plan he had overseen, the spirit of the late Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin hovered over this week's sessions of the National Conference of Catholic Bish...
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TOP STORY: DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP: America mourns a quiet cardinal whose life spoke louder t
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin, the son of an immigrant seamstress and a stonecutter and became one of the most influential and beloved U.S. Roman Catholic leaders in a century, died Thursday (Nov. 14) after a long but graceful battle with cance...
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NEWS STORY: Bishops seek to balance Vatican authority and academic freedom
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Seeking to strike a delicate balance between academic freedom and a commitment to church doctrine, the nation's Roman Catholic bishops Wednesday (Nov. 13) adopted a set of rules on their relations with the church's 235 colleges and universi...
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Bishops criticize U.S. economic policy at home and abroad
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Criticizing"political posturing"and"ideological positioning"by politicians and policymakers, U.S. Catholic bishops Tuesday (Nov. 12) approved a succinct statement calling for restructuring the American economy to meet the basic needs of the...
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Defending priestly celibacy, bishop salutes a mentor and model
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS) _ He didn't say so explicitly, but Bishop Anthony Pilla of Cleveland, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, might have had Chicago Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin in mind Monday when he delivered an impassioned defens...
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