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Author:	Eugene Kennedy
Subcategory:	Leaders & Notable People
Language:	English
Publisher:	St. Martin's Griffin; 1st edition (September 15, 1998)
Pages:	192 pages
Category:	Biographies
Rating:	4.4
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The Spirit of a Cardinal and the Story of a Friendship. One of Kennedy's goals is to demonstrate that the virtues required of the much-maligned church official - patience, politics, evenhandedness and respect for authority, for institutions and their rules - can be those of a saint as well. Born to immigrant Italian parents in sparsely Catholic South Carolina, Joe (as everyone, even journalists, called him) had as a seminarian all the marks of a future bishop. Studious, observant, cautious and ambitious, Bernardin became the nation's youngest Catholic bishop at the age of 38.

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Bernardin, Joseph - 1928-1996. Cardinals - United States - Biography. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.

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Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, the archbishop of Chicago, had long been considered the leader of American Catholicism and was so widely respected throughout the. Eugene Kennedy is a psychologist and former priest, and the award-winning author of several books, including The Unhealed Wound: The Church, the Priesthood, and the Question of Sexuality and My Brother Joseph: The Spirit of a Cardinal and the Story of a Friendship. He writes a nationally syndicated column and lives with his wife, Sara Charles, . in Chicago, Illinois. Read an obituary of Eugene Kennedy in the New York Times.

Eugene Kennedy is a psychologist and former priest, and the award-winning author of several books, including . The Spirit of a Cardinal and the Story of a Friendship.

Eugene Kennedy is a psychologist and former priest, and the award-winning author of several books, including The Unhealed Wound: The Church, the Priesthood .

Eugene Kennedy is a psychologist and former priest, and the award-winning author of several books, including Cardinal Bernardin's Stations of the Cross: Transforming Our Grief and Loss into a New Life and My Brother Joseph: The Spirit of a Cardinal and the Story of a Friendship.

My Brother Joseph: The Spirit of a Cardinal and the Story of a Friendship. St. Martin's Griffin, 1998. Cardinal Bernardin's Stations of the Cross: Transforming Our Grief and Loss Into a New Life. Martin's Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0-312-19515-1. On becoming a counselor: a basic guide for nonprofessional counselors and other helpers. with Sara C. Charles. Crossroad Pub. C. 2001.

A friend of the cardinal's for more than thirty years explores the priest's entire life, focusing primarily on the spiritual meaning and healing that emerged from the last three years of Bernardin's life while he battled cancer. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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Eugene Kennedy pens a description of his friendship of many years with Chicago's Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, one which is obviously partial and laced with emotional scenes and views. It is also riveting in its familiar and at times intimate portrayal of this beloved churchman. Kennedy and later also his wife became very close to Bernardin, especially in his last years. He was privy to the private Bernardin and weaves behind-the-scenes glimpses of what he experienced of Bernardin's reflections and feelings into this short profile. What is covered for the most part is that part of Bernardin's life in which Kennedy in some way played a role or in which he was a confidant.

The two first met when Bernardin chaired a national study of the priesthood. Gradually their friendship grew. Even though geographic separation was a barrier they continued frequent telephone and written contact. They remained close up to the time when Bernardin finally died of cancer.

What clearly attracted Kennedy was Bernardin's approach and skill in the role of a Roman Catholic bishop, and even more his humanness and loyalty as a friend. They apparently were very open with each other at many important times of their lives--Bernardin's mediating role in many Church issues, his ordeal as an accused sex abuser, his years of undergoing cancer treatment and final illness, and when Kennedy decided to leave the priesthood and marry.

Kennedy provided feedback and sometimes ideas for some of Bernardin's public statements. So we have in this short book truly an insider's view of Bernardin in many ways. What I found most interesting and moving were the descriptions of Bernardin's framing life issues as a "seamless garmen,t" his "Common Ground" initiative and how he finally witnessed to the faith he professed by his open and courageous facing of death.

A reader will gain some insight into the man whom friend Kennedy said could have been Pope. Many still look to him as a model in negotiating the often politically charged atmosphere of church and state with skill, grace and truth. Reading this book can also help a reader reflect on life and faith priorities and look at death in that light.

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Best friends are complex characters. Both sides develop a synergy which goes beyond clear tangibles and virtues. When your best friend is famous, and that person dies, the surviving friend has an obligation to seek perspective. Eugene Kennedy needed more time and distance to adequately honor his friend, the late Cardinal Bernadin. Kennedy's emotions are too raw. He seeks sainthood for his friend. After setting that standard, the book becomes defensive. Kennedy tries to be poetic, but he can not sustain that type of prose for 175 pages. In the end Mr. Kennedy tried to honor his friend with emotions and flowery prose. It would have been better if the author had more confidence in Cardinal Bernadin's own words and deeds. We would have learned more about a great man than the slim concepts gained from this endeavor.

Made-with-Love

Writing a memoir about friendship is a tricky endeavor. Events and conversations, times of consolation and alienation, moments of intimacy -- all those elements that go into making up the best of relationships -- are suddenly on display. Living through them, you somehow thought they would never catch the light of day. Now they are out there for all to see. Eugene Kennedy's poignant and inspiring tale about his more than thirty years of friendship with Joseph Bernardin, the late archbishop of Chicago, convinces us that it is worth the risk to share the details about these precious relationships. Anyone who has ever had a best friend will cherish this book.
My Brother Joseph, however, is much more than the tale of a friendship between two men. The book also provides us with an understanding about how Bernardin grew into a much-admired and loved churchman who provided energetic and visionary leadership to the Archdiocese of Chicago and the Catholic church in the United ! ! States.
Kennedy helps us appreciate that Bernardin was niether a dealmaker nor a crafter of compromises; he was instead a genuine consensus builder. His genius as a leader lay in his ability to maintain that delicate balance between loyalty to the institution and respect for the person. Bernardin also refused to typecast people. This capacity helped him work effectively with fellow bishops holding different points of view and was one of the gifts he used eventually to produce the US bishops' pastoral letter on war and peace.
Most memorable in Kennedy's book, however, is the very human person who emerges in its pages. We see Bernardin in those unguarded moments that we all have with good friends -- moments when, free of self-censorship, we say exactly what's on our mind. We are also privileged to witness the growth of his ever deepening spirituality.
The friend that Kennedy had in Bernardin was no plaster saint. Yes, he was ambitious. While still Archbishop of Cincinnat! ! i, for example, he confided to Kennedy that he would very m! uch like to head the Chicago archdiocese. While tolerant of others, their idiosyncractic behavior was not lost on him. He cloaked his reactions to these annoyances, however, in subtle humor.
Kennedy has done us an enormous favor in sharing with us his years of friendship with Bernardin. We come away from this book convinced that God did have a dream for Joseph Bernardin and that this exceptional man spent his life discerning just what that dream was about and living it out. Each step along the way helped make him what he was at the end: an extraordinary leader, a compassionate pastor, a dear friend. Simply put, he was the very best of men.

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