Comments on: Robert Sargent Shriver – Eternal Memory

By: Joe DeVet

Joe DeVet — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:37:46 +0000

It is painful to note how many truly good and pious people are on the wrong side of the political divide. In the case of Democrats, they are so solidly on the wrong side of the abortion “question”, it’s hard to know how a devout Catholic can be one–at least to be a leader and proponent of that party.

I don’t really question the sincerity of their belief or their devotion, or even personal holiness. But the consistency of their public positions makes one wonder.

Sargent Shriver, RIP.

By: Reverend Martin A. Vallely

Reverend Martin A. Vallely — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:43:41 +0000

Tim and I were together at Catholic University in 1985-1986, in several of the same classes. He was then, and is now, an extraordinary, intelligent, and passionate man, and I was deeply fond of him.

His father and his two younger brothers came to join us for the Easter Triduum in Caldwell Hall in ’86. While it was nearly overwhelming for me to actually be in the presence of Sargent Shriver, he immediately set me at ease in the way that only he could. He was friendly, interested in what I had to say, and just plain fun to be with. And so, as I recall, was his son Mark, who seemed to be exactly like him.

Our worship altogether that Easter was awesome, and the family’s devout attachment to the faith was itself very inspiring. I will never, ever forget any of them.

By: Jim Wagner

Jim Wagner — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:04:22 +0000

I remember well an incident in the early fall of 1972, driving up the hill near Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, when we ran into a crowd on the street. “What the ?!//+*&% is this,” I asked my wife, when all of a sudden an man stuck his head in the window of my 1968 Volkswagan ssid, “Hi. I’m Sargent Shriver, and I’m running for Vice President.” Then he was gone. But I have never forgotten that encounter.