Father Mychal Judge

We're going to run a brief experiment (i.e. for a few hours) with making this blog a snark-free zone and therefere point you to Andrew Sullivan's post about Mychal Judge, the Franciscan priest who was killed while giving the last rites to another 9/11 victim. Just reading about his life and death, and reading the reviews of the United 93 film (by Bloody Sunday and Bourne Supremacy director Paul Greengrass) is a reminder that we're still pissed off about 9/11 itself, the negligence that led up to it, and the misbegotten war in Iraq that it spawned. Anyway, as Sullivan explains, Judge would never have gone it for that kind of anger. There is now a peace garden in his name in Keshcarrigan, County Leitrim, his ancestral home. Sullivan also refers to a long trip to Ireland by Judge, when he accompanied Steven McDonald, a paralysed NYPD veteran, in support of the Northern Ireland peace process.