With gratitude, we celebrate the life of a gracious and kindhearted woman,
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, whose compassion for the mentally disabled led her to found the
Special Olympics. What is less known, and what the media, with some exceptions, are generally neglecting to tell us, is that she was also very much pro-life, thus making her one of a very few prominent
Democrats left to hold this position, as reported here:
NBC Notes Eunice Kennedy Shriver Was 'Lifelong Opponent of Abortion'.
Canada's own Fr. Raymond J. de Souza puts this stance within the context of her Catholic faith with this piece in the
National Post:
A tale of two Kennedys.
The Shrivers represented the old Democratic Party -- economically liberal and culturally conservative. . . . Eunice was the ideal of the Catholic in public life -- passionately committed to the poor, defender of the weak, pro-life, morally upright and a woman of faith and family.
May she rest in peace until the resurrection.
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