JEFF FLOCK, CNN CHICAGO BUREAU CHIEF: There was a real genuine outpouring of sadness when Cardinal Bernardin finally lost his battle to cancer, a battle that he knew all along that he was going to lose.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I've never felt so moved and touched and sad other than when President Kennedy died.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He was very well respected and, you know, I don't think you can ever replace somebody like that.</s>FLOCK: It was in August of 1982 that Joseph Bernardin came to Chicago and was named the archbishop of Chicago. Inside a year, he had been named cardinal by the pope, and some really believed that, if anyone had a chance to be the first U.S. pope, it would be Joseph Bernardin.</s>FLOCK (voice-over): Overseeing nearly 400 Catholic parishes, more than 300 Catholic elementary schools, 50 Catholic high schools, eight Catholic colleges and universities.</s>FLOCK: Probably what defined Cardinal Bernardin to the people who he came in contact with in the last months of his life was how he dealt with death.</s>CARDINAL JOSEPH BERNARDIN: As a man of faith, I see death as part of the overall life process and so it is something, you know, that I was prepared for.</s>FLOCK: Chicago said its final goodbye to Joseph Bernardin at the place where he had said many homilies at His Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago.
CNN 20: Cardinal Joseph Bernardin Dies, November 14, 1996