Catholic Commentary: Fr. George Rutler

1942 - Passing through a Severe Calvary
"I am a disciple of Jesus Christ, but I am not a Judas."

1942 - Life Goes On
So as life went on, not all lives went on.

1942 - An Ugly Amount of Success
For the Allies, the general picture was bleak.

Speaking Well of the Dead
If eulogies are not sensibly stopped, I do hope they will be more precise.

1942 - The Start of a Very Long Summer
Happiness will disappear, and pessimism will carry out the suicide of a nation.

1942
More glaring villains and shining saints than almost any other year.

Crime in Kansas
It is always wrong to do something intrinsically evil...

'Manners Makyth Man'
We are not in a golden age, or even a reduced gilded age, of manners.

Avery Cardinal Dulles (1918-2008)
His speechless patience could be heroic...

Pope Pius XII
"A martyr but 'without the nails.'"

Monsignor William B. Smith (1939-2009)
One of the most distinguished careers of any moral theologian.

Richard John Neuhaus, 1936 - 2009
"Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray thee Lord my soul to keep..."

Patrick Peyton
Hollywood's ultimate un-Hollywood personality.

A Prime Minister and Two Cardinals
Predicted "mass apostasy" due to lack of preparedness in spiritual combat.

George Edward Lynch
"It might not be too soon to start work on his canonization."

Richard Schuler
A model of the Council's decrees.

Bent Juel-Jensen
None could have been more curious than his own.

Eric Lionel Mascall
The greatest living 13th-century theologian.

Richmond Lattimore
"Always in the sight of all mankind your fame shall be great..."

William F. Buckley Jr.
God, family, and beauty are the core of life.

Maurice Noël Léon Couve de Murville
Knew that he was not indispensable, but as a Christian he knew he was unique.

Dennis Clinton Graham Heiner
Expected to hear nothing but hate...but only heard love.

Dominic Tang Yee-Ming
"The most faithful running-dog of the reactionary Vatican."

Henry Hyde
"A powerful defender of life, a leading advocate for a strong national defense..."

Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
The 1930s were testing times for faithful Catholics in Austria.

Jean-Marie Lustiger
His life would be rattled by lesser men on every side for whom he was not enough.

Hugh Dacre Barrett-Lennard
None could have ended as happily.

William Liguori Nolan
Able to see with eyes closed so many young faces pass by calling him Father.

Jerome Hines
Mentioned Christ to the Soviet secret police and smuggled Bibles into the Kremlin.

Austin Vaughan
Possibly the smartest bishop in the nation.

Robert Francis Wilberforce
Inherited much of that spark from the most religious and wittiest man in England.

Maria Cristina Marconi
"So run that ye may obtain."

James Charles Risk
Threw off the Calvinism that had shackled his youth and became a Catholic.