Valletta, Malta, Sep 20, 2010 / 22:33 pm
U.S. Ambassador to Malta Doug Kmiec has said his life will be haunted “forever” by the car crash in which caused the deaths of his friend Sr. Mary Campbell and his confessor Msgr. John Sheridan. Writing in a Maltese newspaper, he praised the lives of the deceased and thanked those who had prayed for the accident’s victims.
“Thank you, Malta, for your prayers and for your many warm messages of concern and caring. In this very moment, your thoughts are sustaining me against the agonizing physical pain of multiple surgeries and procedures,” he wrote in The Times of Malta on Sept. 12.
“Many of you know that before coming to Malta, it had been my special blessing to be together often with Mgr Sheridan and Sr. Mary. Before that horrible accident a week or so ago now, it was as before as we shared the special joy of being back together for the first time in many months,” he commented.
He remembered the 74-year-old Sr. Mary and the work of her fellow Sisters of St. Louis, who have committed themselves to living God’s love, especially for the poor and the marginalized. Kmiec recounted how she had been born in Co. Mayo, Ireland and had help instruct the children of southern California for half a century.