Cardinal Law

[Paul_Stephens]

Let whoever among you who is without sin cast the first stone

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HagiaSophia:

I thank you for both for the vote and the compliment. "tis most kind.

I am no better than anyone else here - when I read about the Shanley case, I became almost physically ill. I understand the pain and the anger of some of these people - their sense of betrayal but the danger in holding such venom and hate towards a lone individual is that the vessel which holds the poison, often eats away at itself.

We buried such a great man whis week, a man who saw the Holocaust up front and center, a man who saw his fellow priests disappear into gulags and into the night. A man who knew that the gun aimed at him came from the capital of Russia–he must have despaired of all us many many times, with our lifestyles, our habits, our rhetoric, foolish lambs flailing at life like children. Yet for 26 years he labored in our vineyard, trying to harvest us into receiving grace.

What an irony that in this week of all weeks, that a man who owed him so much, was so in need of a drop of the milk of human kindness, said a Mass for him. What must have gone through the mind of Law as he did that Mass – as he looked at that casket. The milk of human kindness is in short supply these days.

And thanks again for the kind words.

Did Cardinal Law not help bring the CCC into existence. He was stalwart in fighting compromises to the faith, even when it involved his fellow bishops. He was not perfect, but he seemed to have done much more than most.

 

[Paul_Stephens]

Let whoever among you who is without sin cast the first stone

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Paul Stephens
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