Unfailing Patience and Sound Teaching: Reflections on Episcopal Ministry in Honor of Rembert G.Weakland, O.S.B.

Unfailing Patience and Sound Teaching is a collection of essays that approaches the contemporary episcopacy from a variety of perspectives and theological disciplines, is appreciative of Vatican II while looking to the future, and pays tribute to Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland, O.S.B., a recognized leader of the post-conciliar Church in the United States. The essays, each written by a bishop or theologian, explore what it means to be a bishop implementing that Council at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Contributors are David M. Coffey; Susan K. Wood, S.C.L.; Walter J. Burghardt, S.J.; Francis A. Sullivan, S.J.; Daniel W. Kucera, O.S.B.; John H. Erickson; Michael Root; Michael A. Signer; Oscar H. Lipscomb; Bradford E. Hinze; Dianne Bergant, C.S.A.; Kenneth R. Himes, O.F.M.; John R. Donahue, S.J.; Edward Foley, O.F.M. Cap; and David A. Stosur.