“I prayed multiple times a day, sang hymns with emotion and tears, felt each time that it wouldn't happen again, read the Bible every morning. … So how in the world did I have a ‘torrid’—which is an accurate word—many-year affair?”
Mark Souder
Recently resigned Republican congressman from Indiana, writing about his extramarital affair (World/RNS)
“If only I could believe that he could look down and see how he is missed and how nobody will ever be the same without him. But I haven’t believed in the child’s vision of heaven for a long time. There is no way now to commune with him.”
Jackie Kennedy
In a Dec. 20, 1963, letter to Joseph Hannan, then an auxiliary bishop in Washington, D.C., about her assassinated husband, John Kennedy. The letter recently was included in Hannan’s memoir, The Archbishop Wore Combat Boots (RNS)
“It was easily a rock concert. The only thing missing was ‘Free Bird’ and us holding up our lighters.”
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Scott Thumma
Scholar of megachurches at Hartford Seminary, recalling a visit to a youth service at a large church outside Washington, D.C. (Los Angeles Times/RNS)
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