Cardinal Bernardin's Stations of the Cross: Transforming Our Grief and Loss into a New Life

by Eugene Kennedy

Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, had long been considered the leader of American Catholicism and was so widely respected that he was thought to be the only American who might become Pope. His destiny, as those close to him soon sensed, was not to become a Pope but a saint instead. These meditations reveal the parallels between the passion of Christ, as known through scriptural scholarship, and the passion of Cardinal Bernardin in the fourteen stations of his own life.

176 pages, Paperback

First published April 30, 1985

Reviews

[Heather Gaffney]

Interesting concept. I enjoyed learning about Cardinal Bernadin and that his last three years had many parallels to Jesus' Stations. However, I had a difficult time with the author's writing style. It just wasn't conversational enough. The Cardinal was presented as a man who called the people of the diocese as friends, but the writing seemed to be aimed at impressing the reader with the author's intellect. These two clashed a bit for me.

[Ian Heinze]

The author strangely weaves together Christ's Passion with the life of Cardinal Bernardin's life. It is quite uncomfortable to read; and the building up of Cardinal Bernardin as quite basically reenacting Christ's Passion in a modern way is simply improper.