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SAN DIEGO (CNS) – In a series of often moving and sometimes humorous presentations June 6, an oncologist, a hospital CEO and a theologian talked about the lasting legacy of Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin of Chicago nearly nine years after his death from pancreatic cancer. The presentations on the second day of the Catholic Health Association’s annual assembly June 5-8 in San Diego also marked the 10th anniversary of Cardinal Bernardin’s pastoral letter on health care, “A Sign of Hope.” Dominican Sister Ellen Gaynor, a medical doctor who was Cardinal Bernardin’s oncologist until his death in November 1996, said she still has patients who “look to him for courage” in dealing with their cancer and who recall his “very special ministry” to cancer patients. The cardinal carried with him a prayer list with “hundreds of names” of his fellow cancer patients for whom he prayed daily, and also wrote personal letters to many of them, said Sister Gaynor, a professor of medicine at Loyola University’s Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago.
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