Rome, Italy, May 26, 2010 / 19:14 pm
Johnny Cash was remembered for how his music “sang the faith” in an article published on Sunday in the Italian Bishops’ Conference’s newspaper Avvenire. Without his faith, the article said, "the voice of Cash would not have been the same."
The bishops' newspaper remembered the man who, though he "knew" prison and nearly died of a drug overdose, "still ... at a certain point in his life, took from it a possible Meaning, with a capital letter." Cash dedicated the last of his songs, the paper noted, "to sorrowful, moving hymns to man, inserted within his own faith in a God that gives horizons and hopes to man."
Avvenire also looked at Cash's work by reviewing the album "Ain't No Grave," which it called an "ulterior and touching witness of art imbued with faith and humanity."
Looking at the recently released book “The Man in Black—Commentated Texts”, Avvenire saw Cash as a " young country singer that was educated to respect the earth and believe that there is Someone that governs it."