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A Message From Monsignor
FAST FACTS ABOUT MONSIGNOR
- Age 95
- Retired ~1990
- Loves a good joke
- Letters
Professor Kmiec
Doug Kmiec was appointed Ambassador to the Catholic Nation of Malta by President Obama.
Father Bill's eloquent tribute to Doug Kmiec and his family spoke for us all. Doug will be missed by his Pepperdine associates and students. We will miss him most of all at morning Mass.
Like the Psalmist's, my conversations with Doug ran the entire gamut of human life and behavior and always began with Doug's prayer. I have met no one whose conversations were at once more scintillating and prayerful. This is the simple truth, the truth about a responsible Christian and Catholic who at home in the public square, knows and loves his church with all its flaws, all its teachings and traditions.
It was Doug's devotion to the Holy Mass combined with his profound sense of responsibility and deepening insights into things Catholic. His great forte, the natural law, those Divine hints of right and wrong that our church's teachers and scholars have affirmed, developed and still puzzle over, the human person whose built in characteristics crowned by Grace, Doug's great patron and teacher Pope John Paul made the foundation of his own encyclopedic Summa. All the down to earth, day to day ethical implications of our precious Gift of Faith.
It was all of this with his endlessly good humor, his clarity of thinking and speaking. It was above all his charity, the kind of Christian charity that never, never allowed an unkind word to slip from his tongue. It was those qualities of soul and heart I discovered in my good and great friend, dear Doug Kmiec. I am glad Doug is going to contribute of his abundance to other peoples. We will miss him, continue hopefully to hear from him, look forward to seeing him on his visits to his family, to Pepperdine and to us his little OLM Community with whom he prayed. Vade in Pace, Amicus/ Mentor, et Dominus sit semper Tecum.
-Monsignor John Sheridan
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