![]() ![]() Roberts has spent much of the past year responding to the unprecedented political and social fallout from the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Dobbs v. The traditional Red Mass, co-sponsored by the Archdiocese of Washington, surely provided a singular, if fleeting, moment of respite for the chief justice as he faced the start of a new term the following day. “e need wise counselors to guide us and, most especially, that wisest of counselors - the Holy Spirit, who brings us the gifts of wisdom, understanding and counsel, to let us see through our selfishness and past the boundaries of our own limited intellects,” he said. 2 for the annual Red Mass, which calls on the Holy Spirit to guide the work of the nation’s judges and law enforcement officers.īishop John Barres of Rockville Centre, New York, who delivered the homily quoted Romano Guardini, the 20th-century German theologian and author who taught that the best decisions are “accomplished in silence - not in the clamor and display of superficial eventfulness, but in the deep clarity of inner vision.”īishop Barres encouraged members of the congregation to deepen their prayer life in order to withstand the “clamor” of Beltway politics and to clarify and resolve the competing goods in play when they address complex judicial or criminal cases. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C., on Oct. government officials gathered at the Cathedral of St. Where it was gathered up by sickening worms.WASHINGTON - Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, retired Justice Stephen Breyer and a slew of Catholic U.S. Which, mingled with their tears, fell at their feet, The insects streaked their faces with their blood, These wretched ones, who never were alive,īy horseflies and by wasps that circled them. Who made, through cowardice, the great refusal. That death could have unmade so many souls. That, as it wheeled about, raced on - so quickīehind that banner trailed so long a file Let us not talk of them, but look and pass."Īnd I, looking more closely, saw a banner The world will let no fame of theirs endure īoth justice and compassion must disdain them Those who are here can place no hope in death,Īnd their blind life is so abject that they He answered: "I shall tell you in few words. These souls, compelling them to wail so loud?" Have cast them out, nor will deep Hell receive them -Īnd I: "What is it, master, that oppresses The heavens, that their beauty not be lessened, Nor faithful to their God, but stood apart. They now commingle with the coward angels, Who lived without disgrace and without praise. "Master, what is it that I hear? Who are Like sand that eddies when a whirlwind swirls.Īnd I - my head oppressed by horror - said: Strange utterances, horrible pronouncements,Īnd voice shrill and faints, and beating hands -Īll went to make a tumult that will whirlįorever through that turbid, timeless air, ![]() Here sighs and lamentations and loud cries This scene occurs in the third canto of the Inferno (the following is a translation from the original written in the Italian vernacular): They are therefore worse than the greatest sinners in Hell because they are repugnant to both God and Satan alike, and have been left to mourn their fate as insignificant beings neither hailed nor cursed in life or death, endlessly travailing below Heaven but outside of Hell. Virgil explains to Dante that these souls cannot enter either Heaven or Hell because they did not choose one side or another. These individuals, when alive, remained neutral at a time of great moral decision. In the Inferno, Dante and his guide Virgil, on their way to Hell, pass by a group of dead souls outside the entrance to Hell. As Robert Kennedy explained in 1964, "President Kennedy's favorite quote was really from Dante, 'The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis preserve their neutrality.'" This supposed quotation is not actually in Dante's work, but is based upon a similar one. One of President Kennedy's favorite quotations was based upon an interpretation of Dante's Inferno. ![]()
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