[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 90 (Friday, June 25, 2004)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1290]
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                       ``A HERO WALKED AMONG US''

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                           HON. BARNEY FRANK

                            of massachusetts

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, June 25, 2004

  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, last Sunday, the people of 
Massachusetts, and particularly of the town of Sharon in my 
Congressional district, lost a great priest to illness. Father Robert 
Bullock exemplified the virtues of the priesthood. He was a wise, 
loving, kind man of great compassion and unimpeachable integrity. His 
death at 75 saddened all who knew of him and indeed all who knew of his 
great work. On Tuesday, June 22, the Boston Herald published a pithy 
but profound editorial about the death of this wonderful priest and I 
ask that it be reprinted here.

                [From the Boston Herald, June 22, 2004]

                         A Hero Walked Among Us

       Heroes come in many forms, often shaped by their times.
       The Rev. Robert W. Bullock, who died this weekend at age 
     75, had been an everyday kind of hero for a very long time. A 
     chaplain at Brandeis University and later a parish priest in 
     Sharon, he forged lasting ties with the Jewish community, 
     visiting Israel, writing on the Holocaust and speaking out 
     against anti-Semitism.
       But when the scandal of clergy sexual abuse broke, Father 
     Bullock went from quiet hero to noisy and courageous critic 
     of the church hierarchy and Bernard Cardinal Law in 
     particular. He headed the Boston Priests Forum, which called 
     on Law to step down in December 2002.
       His was a courage born of faith, the kind of courage that 
     will truly be missed around here. But the inspiration that 
     his life was lives on.

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