Cardinal george chicago biography theater

(OSV News) -- Before he died in , media often asked Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago about his legacy. It was a question he had answered along the lines of having "tried to be a good priest and a good bishop." It also was a question he had dismissed as "trying to make sense of my years here by fitting them into a narrative, a story line."

However, in , at what would be his last public Mass, he gave the congregation a more robust answer.

"Different people, of course, will have different takes on my years here as archbishop," he said in his homily.

"Some of them I might appreciate and some not, but that's the fate of anyone in a public post, a position of public trust.

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The question I have to ask myself is, 'With what have I been entrusted?' and 'What have I done with this gift?' At some point, Christ will question me: 'What have you done with my people? Are they holier because of your ministry?

Are they more generous? More loving toward others?' In short, you are my legacy."

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