Quote of the day
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that 'the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.'
Joseph Bernardin
Born: April 2, 1928
Died: November 14, 1996 (aged 68)
Bio: Joseph Louis Bernardin was an American Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Cincinnati from 1972 until 1982, and as Archbishop of Chicago from 1982 until his death in 1996 from pancreatic cancer.
Known for:
- The Gift of Peace
- Consistent ethic of life (1988)
- Catholic Common Ground Initiative
- The journey to peace