Padre Antonio José Martinez, Cura de Taos

Saturday, June 14, 2008
4:48:00 PM EDT
I admire and appreciate Tim Russert of Meet the Press.  Although he has so recently died,   I speak in the present tense  because my admiration and appreciation of this man continues.  Since Sunday morning Mass schedule prevented me from seeing  Meet the Press "live," I was neveertheless quite familiar with the program  and with him from news clips and other sources.  I esspecially appreciate his openly professing his Catholic faith in an endearing manner.  He proudly affirmed his Catholic grade school and Jesuit high school education, and the specific teachers who influenced his life.  On this Fathers' Day, I am especially moved by his "piety," the virtue that bespeaks family loyalty and love for one's father.  He articulated it in Big Russ and Me that I have now put on my reading list.

I sincerely commend to you the video tributes to him on MSNBC.com:

 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/25162101#25159073



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