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Last year I was buying rosary materials from a nice priest (although in a shirt and khaki pants [?!], no collar) who is the caretaker of the Worldwide Fr. Patrick Peyton Rosary Apostolate at Stonehill College in Massachusetts. Anywho, this priest was really sweet and showed me a movie about Fr. Peyton's life and blessed some crucifixs (that can't be the right spelling -- crucifixi ???) I had purchased and spent a lot of time with me. I happened to notice that he stocks the biography on Cardinal Bernardin (who confuses and confounds me) and remarked that I was surprised that of all the cardinals biographies available, they would stock one on Cardinal Bernardin (and it was a flattering one). The priest was kind of surprised I said that so I elaborated and said that there are so many dodgy stories about Cardinal B. and a lot of Catholics think he courted dissent although quietly and in ways not readily apparent. I mentioned that Cardinal Law had locked horns (no pun intended) with Cardinal B. over Cardinal B. being so welcoming of Call To Action and a couple of other things. Well the priest was very surprised and said he thinks that Cardinal B. was a very good man and he had not heard differently from anyone else.

An enigma.

Once, during the time B was under assault from the man dying of AIDS, I heard a homily about him which just glowed. Considering the source, I should have suspected then.

He was slick. He was smooth. It's been kept really quiet, but if half of what RCF claims is true, he was also evil. Just too many coincidences surround his name.