Sunday, January 11, 2009

Requiescat In Pace, Fr. Neuhaus

Mr. Raymond Arroyo (EWTN) wrote a very nice tribute to Fr. Neuhaus who passed away Thursday, January 8, 2009:

For me personally, Father Neuhaus will forever be attached to the election of Pope Benedict XVI and, early last year, his journey to America. Father Neuhaus was my co-host for the Eternal Word Television Network's live coverage of those events, providing commentary that was erudite and occasionally cutting. When I announced to our viewers that the pope would be meeting with the American bishops in the crypt of National Basilica in Washington, Father Neuhaus quipped: "A fitting repository for the American Episcopacy."

When one steps back and looks at the turns of Father Neuhaus's life -- at his active engagement with social causes and, when American culture changed, with those "first things" that came to matter more than ever; at his willingness to forsake friendships and old alliances to pursue the truth -- it is ever more clear that he was willing to obey the promptings of his faith, no matter where they took him.


Read the whole article here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123146278576166541.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

1 comment:

Little Mary said...

So today begins your discernment of being an organized potato. I mean a TOTSH.;-)LOL. Any bus cancellations yet for the March so you can go?