Cardinal Joseph Bcrnardin:
Bowman, Jim
TWO DEPARTURES, ONE ARRIVAL At a meet- ing held in the Commonweal offices on November 4, the board A CELEBRATION FOR of directors of the Commonweal Foundation...
...The editors are grateful for his long On the other hand, comments a young recent graduate of an service to our readers...
...and one day I made a sentimental side trip to Paisley, my grandfather's home town, which he last saw about 1910 when he departed for America...
...sodomized by Bernardin sixteen or more years ago and has brought Hundreds gave Bernardin standing ovations at a seminarysuit, asking $10 million for the pain and anguish caused...
...He resigned for reasons of health...
...On the other side is foul...
...Nine men take charge of his (a) rebellious or (b) mean-spirited operation...
...His predecessor, Cardinal John P. Cody, Commonweal 3 December 1993: 5 received all sorts of orchestrated support when he was pillo- Bernardin had already said it, as the Tribune's religion writ-, ried by the Sun-Tinies for alleged financial and noncelibate er, Michael Hirsley, emphasized in a column...
...I'm a pastor," said Bernardin...
...But I've always thought of it as an old man's hat because it was the kind of hat worn by my grandfather, whom I knew only when he was an old man...
...RSVP by January 3, 1994 O'Brien Steinfels...
...He has in mind Holy Name Cathedral...
...old man's hat...
...Himself a veteran journalist (the longtime editor New York City of Purchasing magazine...
...O'Brien is president of the University of Roches- to: ter, author of God and the New Haven Railway, and a frequent Anniversary Celebration contributor to the magazine, most recently in the issue of Oc- 15 Dutch Street, Room 502 tober 22 ["Between Law and Character...
...Joseph's Church John Cogley (d...
...When I graduated from college in 1960, eleven years after his death, I spent the summer at the University of Edinburgh...
...Bernardin never quite rejoined, but he did fix a blue-eyed He even offered to go and see and "comfort" the accuser, a gaze or two and allowed himself slight shows of impatience...
...And the ball libertinism or (b) clean out his Augean chancery stables of timelanding on one side of the line is fair...
...He has agcurious, they were...
...whose first husband, 12:10 Mass at St...
...playground-style term for a weak-knee...
...I don't know the official name of this kind of hat (or cap), and I realize that even young men are permitted to wear it...
...The goes a long way back), is in his corner...
...Ab has a good idea A priest may privately call him a "pantywaist," using a quaint, now and then, but this baseball business is a laugher...
...chuckle) Why nine...
...One recalls Pope John Paul But not even the frenziedly feeding media have been what you II bending in prayer in the prison cell with Mehmet Ali Agca, call hard on him...
...secretary-treasurer, Margaret Seating is limited...
...vice-president, James O'Gara...
...of course indefatigable...
...He refused to let their legitimate cause be swept ing a bravura news conference performance in which he han- away," said Hirsley...
...but alas, I can't remember what...
...on a side, Ab...
...To reserve your place at the luncheon send a Also in November, the Foundation hoard elected Dennis check for $15 (per person) made payable to the O'Brien as a director and as vice-president for the Commonweal Commonweal Foundation endowment...
...Gerald in seventeenth-century New England...
...His defense must misbehavior...
...Just perfect example of how to respond to allegations...
...TWO DEPARTURES, ONE ARRIVAL At a meeting held in the Commonweal offices on November 4, the board A CELEBRATION FOR of directors of the Commonweal Foundation regretfully accepted EDWARD S. SKILLIN'S 90th Birthday...
...Unfortunately I have but scant recollection of any words of wisdom uttered EIGHT APHORISMS IN SEARCH OF A HAT by my grandfather: otherwise I could simply plagiarize his words as I plagiarized his hat...
...I had become my grand- money...
...advance in age I give more and So when I appeared in public the other He also told me that an English shilling more thought to how I can be a day wearing the old man's hat, it was an was worth twenty-five cents in American wise and dignified old man when epoch in my life...
...servers and me-firsters...
...whose presumably unscripted remarks could not have been script- JIM BOWMAN ed better...
...Eastern college where rage simmers constantly about abuse of women by men, it's the sort of evidence a rape victim recalls REPORT FROM CHICAGO only after plumbing the depths of her psyche...
...In other words, Chicago is 99 percent behind Bernardin, and you know about the 1 percent only spectrally...
...At least some of it was heartfelt, but standing be carried on "tin such a way that it will not frighten or scare ovations were saved for his resignation announcement, which off true victims," said Bernardin...
...But almost to a man, Somewhere between Bob Newhart and Kafka falls the reli- priests like Bernardin...
...The correct old man will time set on the British Empire...
...As I got off the bus in the center of Paisley, what did I see but a multitude of old men, all of them resembling my grandfather because they were all wearing the "old man's cap...
...Lincoln...
...The directors marking his 60 years of service also expressed deep appreciation for all that Paul Farrell has to Commonweal and the beginning of done to advance the cause of Commonweal, both as a board Commonweal's 70th year of publication member (he served since the creation of the foundation in 1984) and as friend and adviser since 1947...
...chuck- Why doesn't he (a) crack down on altar girls and rail against le) Why not, say eight, or ten...
...Having defended the accuser says that under therapy he has remembered being guilty, the archdiocese now must defend the innocent, he said...
...properly...
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...You might say it's suppressed, held in reserve for when CARDINAL JOSEPH BERNARDIN some other, more concrete revelations are made, of a less specA SHEPHERD ENFOLDED BY HIS FLOCK tral nature...
...thirty-four-year-old AIDS victim...
...We feel for the cardinal, and at the same time we Jim Bowman...
...be in possession not only of a proper hat OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin, Jr...
...Wisdom about a dime, the sun having in the meanward dignification by purchasing a tweedy too is needed...
...dled a dozen (it seemed like a dozen) "How do you feel...
...gressively defended himself without attacking victims...
...but shillings no longer exist, and the time comes...
...He was a bricklayer, so he am still a number of years away of course they were all looking very dig- told me something about how to lay bricks from being an old man, but as I nified...
...even if they did they would be worth only The other day I took the first step to- But dignity isn't everything...
...New York, NY 10038-3760 Other directors of the Foundation: President, Edward S. Skillin...
...campus meeting on his return from the Washington bishops' "Spectral evidence," mutters a Chicago-area cleric over meeting and at the inaugural sesquicentennial-year Mass at breakfast coffee, his Tribune open before him...
...Or as Barbara Blaine, of Survivors Network of Those Abused questions along the lines of "Otherwise, how did you like the by Priests (SNAP), said, also quoted by Hirsley, "He has set a play, Mrs...
...And "However, he did leave some pearls of wisdom...
...Now the crucible engulfs Weales has always been concise, perceptive, fair-minded, re- the leader of the American church's progressive, you might say markably conversant with the lore of contemporary theater, and American, wing...
...former religion editor of the Chicago Daily have to respect the pain of victims whoever they are," etc...
...but also of a repertoire of aphorisms that sum up the wisdom he has accumulated in the course of a long and well-spent lifeMY QUEST FOR WISDOM time...
...the resignation of Paul V. Farrell from the board...
...In Chicago, let me tell you, the latter response is barely evident...
...By saying it, he "did a critical service to victims of clergy Bernardin not only received standing ovations from supporters abuse at precisely a time when it might not have been expectbut he demonstrated observable grace under pressure, deliver- ed of him...
...1976), was a Commonweal editor for a num- 371 Sixth Avenue between Waverly & Washington, ber of years...
...In the latter capacities he Join us on Thursday, Januat,y 20, 1994 was joined by his wife, Theodora (Teddy...
...Interview stories have featured churchgoers his attempted assassin...
...Bernardin might be panned here for mismanagement, as for the number of schools and parishes closed on his watch, but n early Bob Newhart routine has a game com- he's no candidate for obloquy...
...How did those bozos think he felt...
...The gamesman barely contains himself...
...Sidney Callahan, Daniel Murtaugh, and Richard Sexton...
...The best-known of them, Andrew ability of suppressed-memory evidence of sex abuse as invoked Greeley, a typically fractious Chicago-breed priest (and the type by the accuser of Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago...
...never came...
...News, is a free-lance writer in Chicago...
...Farrell made special efforts to Lunch to follow ($15 contribution) call the attention of the nation's major media to materials pub- For additional information call 212-732-0800 lished in Commonweal...
...With this issue, Gerald Weales completes a twenty-five-year the testimony that put alleged witches behind bars and worse association with Commonweal as our theater reviewer...
...father...
...He has people mad at him for pany man listening over the phone to Abner not being tough enough or shrewd enough or ready enough to Doubleday's cockamamie idea...
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