November 1993: Archbishop of Chicago Cardinal Joseph Bernardin is accused of sexually assaulting Steven Cook, who files a lawsuit against him. This was another historical allegation/FALSE MEMORY. Cook recanted three months later.
This short clip includes footage of both men. Steven Cook died of AIDS in September 1995 aged just 36; Bernardin died the following year. I don’t want to read too much into this, but it may be that as a Catholic, Cook was looking for a way, albeit subconsciously, to pass the buck for his own sexual follies. Sinners don’t go to Heaven and all that.
According to this lengthy article by someone called Brother Michael Diamond, Bernardin raped an 11 year old girl in 1957 when she was 17. As part of a Satanic ritual, no less. There is actually a lot more to it than this.
The Windy City Gay Chorus performed at Bernardin’s funeral, that and his close contact with homosexuals during his life has led many people to claim Bernardin was himself a homo. My own, albeit limited researches, lead me to believe he was not homosexual but doing the Christian bit of working with sinners. A decade and more before his death he made it clear he drew a distinction between discrimination and prejudice against homosexuals on the one hand, and acceptance or approval of homosexual activity or advocacy of a lifestyle which encourages homosexual activity on the other.
Since his death, Bernardin has been accused of all manner of sins by some clearly demented people, and doubtless as with everyone from Adolf Hitler to Jimmy Savile, the mythologies and his list of sins will continue to grow.
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