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

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.