Hours before his death April 17, Cardinal Francis George was still hard at work. He was putting the finishing touches on a book manuscript. Everything had to be just right, because he knew these words would be his last message to the world.
In June, “A Godly Humanism: Clarifying the Hope That Lies Within,” will be published, a collection of eight essays that contain the late Chicago archbishop’s concluding thoughts. He touches on the four popes in power during his 50 years as a priest, discusses the role of Catholic higher education in secular society, and gives glimpses into living Catholicism in what he dubs a “post-Christian society.”
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