Martyrs of Charity
Like
many of you, I am not embarrassed to say that I wept when I read the
story of the terrible murders of two Catholic sisters who had served the
poor in central Mississippi. They were stabbed to death in their house
in Durant, Miss., by an intruder on Aug. 25.
I know that many people suffer violent
deaths throughout the world, in places like Syria and Sudan, and even in
the inner cities of the United States. And I know that many people give
their lives to work with the poor, both here and around the world. But
somehow I found the deaths of Sister Margaret Held, a member of the
School Sisters of St. Francis in Milwaukee, and Sister Paula Merrill, a
member of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in Kentucky, inexpressibly
sad. Both were 68 years old. What an awful, terrifying and violent way
to die.
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