‘It’s hard to bear yourself at the foot of the cross. And it’s hard to recognize your own shortcomings, but it’s also the only thing that helps.”
Claire Lai had been reading Fulton J. Sheen, archbishop and trailblazing American TV host, who is advancing on the road to sainthood. She brought up the scriptural image and quote from Sheen in an interview earlier this year about her own saint, her father, Jimmy Lai. He has been living his own hell — away from his family, the sacraments of his beloved Catholic Church, and the freedom he fought for for himself and others as a newspaper editor and entrepreneur. He’s a political prisoner — mostly in solitary confinement — in Hong Kong, incarcerated on trumped-up charges under a bogus national-security law which pretty much exists to silence — and make an example of — him.
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