“Holiness
Walking”
It was June 21,
1985, and I was in
Washington, D.C., with my
fiancé at the National Right to Life
Committee’s (NRLC) annual 3-day
convention. On Saturday evening, we were
part of a crowd of around two thousand
people who had gathered in a ballroom
in the Hyatt Regency hotel to
hear Mother Teresa of
Calcutta speak.
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I can’t quite recall if her speech was scheduled ahead of time or if she was a last-minute
addition to the program. I do know she was
in town to receive the Presidential Medal of
Freedom from President Ronald Reagan,
which she did on Thursday, June 20.
Christ in Every Face
What I remember most about that night
wasn’t so much what our now new saint
said, even though it was a powerful pro-life
affirmation of the dignity of every human