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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....

Bobby Schindler has responded to the news that one of Terri's executioners will have such a prominent role at the Justice Department.

Thread by me.

Terri Schiavo's Brother Upset by Barack Obama Justice Department Selection

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The brother of Terri Schiavo, the woman whose former husband subjected her to a painful starvation and dehydration death, is upset that Barack Obama has chosen a top Justice Department lawyer who was the attorney for the man who condemned her to death.

Obama has named Thomas Perrelli, who won an award for representing Schiavo's former husband Michael, as the third highest attorney in the Justice Department.

Perrelli will be an associate attorney general, but the news isn't something Bobby Schindler likes.

Schindler, Terri's brother and one of Terri's family members who fought to be given the right to provide her appropriate medical care and rehabilitative treatment, told LifeNews.com the appointment shows how Obama has little regard for the value of human life.

“Sadly, the appointment of Attorney Thomas Perrelli as an associate attorney general is what many of us have feared in regards to an Barack Obama presidency," Schindler said.

"Not only does it appear that President-elect Obama has no regard for the value and dignity of human life, but it also appears the same holds true for those he is appointing to be part of his administration," he added.

"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest."

Rest in Peace Father Neuhaus -- your wisdom will be sorely missed.

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Richard John Neuhaus, 1936–2009 (Rest in Peace)

Fr. Richard John Neuhaus slipped away today, January 8, shortly before 10 o’clock, at the age of seventy-two. He never recovered from the weakness that sent him to the hospital the day after Christmas, caused by a series of side effects from the cancer he was suffering. He lost consciousness Tuesday evening after a collapse in his heart rate, and the next day, in the company of friends, he died.

My tears are not for him—for he knew, all his life, that his Redeemer lives, and he has now been gathered by the Lord in whom he trusted.

I weep, rather for all the rest of us. As a priest, as a writer, as a public leader in so many struggles, and as a friend, no one can take his place. The fabric of life has been torn by his death, and it will not be repaired, for those of us who knew him, until that time when everything is mended and all our tears are wiped away...