Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Bishop Howard Hubbard died last week. Scandal and shame marked his last years. So what now? We have 3 main options…..

De mortuis nil nisi bonum. So goes the ancient Latin aphorism: Speak no ill of the dead. But what of the dead who did so much ill that any speech at all would have to include it? That’s the dilemma facing Bishop Edward Scharfenberger of Albany, New York. What should he say about Bishop Emeritus Howard Hubbard? Or perhaps he should say nothing?