Cardinal Stritch and How He Changed My Life

Cardinal Stritch and How He Changed My LifeI have often heard this question asked by students and 'I can't figure out what Cardinal Stritch's stance is on life, love, death and how to deal with it.' As a professional academic I usually get the same kind of questions from students. But at times they may not know my point of view, in that I am not a living professor but a human being who was born and grew up in this world of the modern people. I must be the only one in this world who knows my thoughts, thinking and feeling about life, love, death and all those kinds of things.Cardinal Stritch, the famous author of 'The Dunwich Horror' believed in knowing about life and death. The secrets of life and death could be only known by God. He considered the curiosity and openness about life and death a very great virtue and he wanted to avoid it. But I think that we could benefit much by discovering the meaning of life, love and death, in order to be happy, in our life and society. I must say that the lives of the saints have given us a tremendous help in order to open our heart and mind for finding the meaning of life, love and death.I remember many conversations with my dear friend John Gibson, when I ask him how he deals with his curiosity. He told me that he was interested in religious life and it was not possible for him to feel the mysteries of life and death, or, there is no use trying to know. In the end, he would search in the depths of his heart and soul to find the truth about life and death. For him it was a matter of faith, and he was working at it.In the same way there are many people who are very excited about life and death, but they are looking for a different kind of understanding in life and death. They know about life and death. In other words, they really care about it, and they want to go beyond the ordinary limitations and put their heart and soul into it. They are searching for something different, and they really want to get to know life and dea th.Cardinal Stritch's first name stands for the Christian saint from the 12th century, the author of 'The Dunwich Horror'. St. John Harker is a wonderful man of letters and always laughed and loved his wife and children. I do not believe that his life and works were a joke, and I know that Cardinal Stritch wrote in a poetic way and without care about such things. His work was written to stir the souls of readers are still reading them, twenty centuries after his death. I believe that we have taken a wrong turn and try to follow an unnatural path that can destroy us from within.Cardinal Stritch may have thought differently about life and death, but I have always wondered about him. I think that the writers he respected most were Bishop Welsh and Newman. The moral philosopher Thomas Hobbes, and the great theologian John Calvin were also his heroes, and I don't know whether he was aware of their thinking.Cardinal Stritch was an unusual man. He liked to smoke pipes in the bookshop, he h ad four living grandchildren, and he enjoyed his tea and bread. I have also noticed that St. John Bull's most famous book, 'The Healing of the Body', is the result of St. John Bull's visit to St. John Harker.In other words, Stritch wasn't a saint because he knew about life and death. I believe that he found something very important in his life and he didn't like to talk about it, but I believe that we are all the heroes of our own lives, and we are the ones who know what to do. Do you want to know how I found the meaning of life? Try to remember how Cardinal Stritch once said that he wished that he could walk a thousand miles through the country side, but didn't have the courage to do so.