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Fr. Neuhaus (who is also ill and in need of our prayers) has an excellent commentary comparing the pro-life movement to the radical movements of the 1960s.

Thread by me.

Father Richard John Neuhaus: The Pro-Life Movement as the Politics of the 1960s

Whatever else it is, the pro-life movement of the last thirty-plus years is one of the most massive and sustained expressions of citizen participation in the history of the United States. Since the 1960s, citizen participation and the remoralizing of politics have been central goals of the left. Is it not odd, then, that the pro-life movement is viewed as a right-wing cause? Reinhold Niebuhr wrote about “the irony of American history” and, were he around to update his book of that title, I expect he might recognize this as one of the major ironies within the irony...

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The Wall Street Journal has a wonderful piece on how the Kennedys and others made the shift from pro-life to pro-death for political expediency.

Thread by me.

How Support for Abortion Became Kennedy Dogma

For faithful Roman Catholics, the thought of yet another pro-choice Kennedy positioned to campaign for the unlimited right to abortion is discouraging. Yet if Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of Catholics John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, is appointed to fill the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Hillary Clinton, abortion-rights advocates will have just such a champion...

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Father Neuhaus has fallen gravely ill and will soon be with our Lord in Paradise.

Please remember him and his loved ones in your prayers.

Pyro7480 has a thread.

Thank you and God Bless

On Fr. Neuhaus (Received Last Rites)

His friends and family are keeping vigil and he was administered last rites shortly after midnight. Fr. George Rutler, who gave him the Catholic Sacrament, says that “he is not expected to live long” and suggests “that it is appropriate that prayers be offered for a holy death.”

Fr. Neuhaus has come close to this moment before and been back. If it’s his time: Go in peace. He's a man who has loved and served His Lord. When he leaves this world, his vast intellectual and spiritual body of work will have a long life here....