RIP

I learned today that Congressman Henry Hyde has died, and gone to meet his Maker.1 Congressman Hyde once either said or wrote (I do not know which)

When the time comes, as it surely will, when we face that awesome moment, the final judgment, I've often thought, as Fulton Sheen wrote, that it is a terrible moment of loneliness. You have no advocates, you are there alone standing before God — and a terror will rip your soul like nothing you can imagine. But I really think that those in the pro-life movement will not be alone. I think there'll be a chorus of voices that have never been heard in this world but are heard beautifully and clearly in the next world — and they will plead for everyone who has been in this movement. They will say to God, ‘Spare him, because he loved us!’2

I know that, if his thought be at all accurate, then surely the unborn spoke for him. I pray God that Congressman Hyde finds his rest in Heaven.