Obituaries

There are a plethora of reactions to the death of Father Neuhaus, which you can link to in the article below. But the sub-quote below caught my attention particularly:

Obituaries:

“To the living, we owe respect; to the dead, only truth,” Voltaire once opined. It’s a good line: high-minded, confident, sententious in the way only enlightened French philosophes could manage with any aplomb. But it also feels exactly backward, particularly about those we knew and loved.

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Read the whole thing.

(Via First Things.)