She wanted to receive Holy Communion. She was 88 years old…
The nurses avoided our questions, ignored us, and then finally told us you can’t come in. “She can’t have any visitors,” the disembodied cowardly voice crackled through the intercom…
… I lived in Romania for 15 years. I had been exposed to the spirit of a totalitarian regime… I was not going to back off…
I detected the familiar, sinister spirit of blind obedience to a soulless, state policy. I had to fulfill my sacred duty…
Fr. John Lincoln Downie