As of Monday afternoon, it will be a year since Kate O’Beirne left this world. I’m not alone among her friends in shock that it’s already been a year. While there have been blessings and consolations in the last year – most especially the birth of her namesake, a granddaughter to her son Phil and his wife, Kathleen — she was, in many ways, “larger than life,” as they say, and she is missed every day.

On Tuesday night in Washington, D.C., at the Catholic Information Center, I’ll be moderating a discussion with Rep. Barbara Comstock and Ramesh Ponnuru talking about our dear friend and specifically about her witness as a Catholic in the public square. She was Godmother to Ramesh and Judge Robert Bork and Robert Novak, for example (and Rush Limbaugh referred to her as the Godmother of the Conservative Movement) … there was something about her and the way she lived her life that often left people wanting what she had in the most eternal ways.

Tuesday night at 6 will be a conversation of interest to people who knew her and to people who never had the chance to meet her — all our welcome.

There will be a reception after and a few gratis takeaways to help with our own missions in making the world better.

Details are here.