Notes from The Front

A Regular Guy pointed out that Fr Neuhaus had something to say at the National Right to Life convention that might be interesting to all of us. You may recall that First Things is the only magazine that I read straight through as soon as it arrives. This is not an essay but rather a speech modeled after some of the great speakers in the Anglo-American tradition.

"That is the horizon of hope that, from generation to generation, sustains the great human rights cause of our time and all times—the cause of life. We contend, and we contend relentlessly, for the dignity of the human person, of every human person, created in the image and likeness of God, destined from eternity for eternity—every human person, no matter how weak or how strong, no matter how young or how old, no matter how productive or how burdensome, no matter how welcome or how inconvenient. Nobody is a nobody; nobody is unwanted. All are wanted by God, and therefore to be respected, protected, and cherished by us."

I bolded the phrase that leapt from the page to my mind. What a guy, a speaker as well as a writer.