Message from rbrady

[Anonymous]

This talk also got me thinking about some deep issues that could be very interesting for students to ponder. I was told once by some Chinese in Hong Kong that they felt that they had a stronger sense of the right of a human because of their British experience and were hoping to change mainland thinking on this from within, When you mention the more conservative thinking of your Latino students I remember Pope John Paul II writing about why he is fighting so strongly against abortion and why he continues to work as Pope and not resign even as his body is failing him. He said basically that the unborn are the most vulnerable of humanity and if you make them seem less human they then can become expendable. This starts the descent down a slippery slope. Next are the elderly because they too can be inconvenient and therefore less human and so it continues on and on. He wanted to show that he could still run such a large organization of humanity with a failing body and serve as an example and reminder that he was indeed still human. Great opportunity for deep student discussions and self awareness. Would have loved to have been on the wall of a conversation between a Jesuit and his Chinese hosts.