Two good posts from the last day or so:

They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? by Robert Araujo, SJ – in which he does some compare and contrast:

There is something about educating inquiring minds (be they students, readers of articles, judges, legislators, administrators, and citizens with whom we come into contact) concerning the inestimable value of every human being whose future, both in this world and the next, should not be fraught with decisions and attitudes that many would find barbaric if they were directed toward a horse. I am sorry for Barbaro, and I am sorry for Ruffian, the famous horse that is the subject of Ms. Schwartz’s book to which I made previous reference. But I am far more sorry for those children, born and not; those mature men and women struggling with the problems and conflicts of life; those aging elders left alone to die; those disabled persons who do not seem to exist, all who are viewed by a culture and its political and legal institutions as being dispensable because they are not famous—and if they are not famous, then they are unknown. And it becomes easy to imagine that they do not exist. That is the challenge for us: to demonstrate that they do exist and merit the primary concern of a people that are “capable of caring so much.” God has expressed his love for them. Might we not do the same if we are capable of caring so much?

Greg Sisk remembers his law school graduation two decades ago – Archbishop Hunthausen was the speaker…and you might be surprised by the ending of this story.

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