[siunevada]

Frs. Charles and Chester Smith, SVD are twin brothers born in Chicago, Illinois. They were ordained in 1988.

Father Charles Smith encouraged people to speak the truth in love and humility, never pressuring anyone to join the church and avoiding a superior attitude to anyone.

Thank you, Father.

[vox_freedom]

Wasn't Timothy McVeigh a Mason?

[Alex Murphy]

Interesting perspective on the McVeigh execution - thanks for posting this.

Doubly chilling when one remembers McVeigh's last words - William Ernest Henley's poem "Invictus" (Latin for "Undefeated"). Here's how it ends:

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.

[PhiKapMom]

Pardon me but I hope McVeigh was fried to a crisp for taking all those innocent lives. I do not believe any one man from any faith can forgive him for what he did to those innocent people including young children and babies.

[murphE]

I think this story gives strong support for the death penalty. Would he have repented if he was going to be in prison for life, or was his repenting the result of facing death and being forced to contemplate the Four Last Things?

[Vision]

"When I first came in (to see him) I thought 'God is the owner of my life,' and I went to him and he threw his feces on me and called me all types of names and said, 'You can't be a priest because I've never seen a you-know-what as a priest,'"

Well that's nice.