While we're at it.(various items on religion and public life)

First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, January, 2003

* From the beginning, Father Ernest Fortin was a member of our editorial advisory board. He suffered a major stroke in 1997. On October 22, 2002, he half sat up in bed and said in a low voice, "I see something beautiful," and then laid back and died within the hour. He was seventy-eight years old. An Assumptionist priest of French-Canadian extraction, Fr. Ernest was quiet, erudite, intellectually mischievous, and a sworn opponent of every form of dogmatism. At the funeral Mass, his provincial superior Fr. John L. Frank said, "I remember Ernest once teaching us that the Christian virtue par excellence was not a theological virtue like faith, hope, or charity, nor was it a cardinal virtue like fortitude, temperance, justice, or prudence. No, the Christian virtue par...

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