The songs chosen in the linked-to article are among the best that the greatest voice of a generation offered to an adoring public. This rendition of the American National Anthem is the single best version of my lifetime. Sung at the culmination of a season that saw the Twin Towers fall and the Pentagon crippled, it reached the hearts of a world-wide audience which considered themselves to be all "Americans" at that moment in time. It still gives me shivers when I hear it now. It makes me sad to contemplate how that deep sense of good-will towards America was thrown away in a needless war, just as it does when I remember how this gifted singer wasted so much of her life on a drugs. Like the Kings of Pop and Rock & Roll before her, she was a talent that burned itself out all too soon. Thank you God for allowing the world to such a perfect voice and amazing talent. May she find in the life she now begins the peace that alluded her in this one. Like the King of Pop and...
Reflections from the pastoral ministry of an Evangelical Catholic Priest.