Back, by popular demand, this is Keith Olbermann’s Saturday night introduction on MSNBC:
As Sunday begins in the Eternal City…
The last day of Easter Week…
The preparations for his passing have long since been solemnly and mournfully enacted.
Transportation increased, and secular activities decreased…
Cardinals, heading to Rome.
But he who lived through the Nazi work-camps…
And recovered when run down by a truck 62 years ago…
Who outlasted the Communists…
Who survived an assassin’s bullets…
Shrugged off a tumor…
A man who did not succumb to Parkinson’s disease…
And who, when he could no longer get himself down to kiss the ground, simply had them bring the ground up to him.
A survivor of ALL — still survived, even at the end.
We were told he had but hours left.
That was one whole day…
And one brilliant St. Peter’s sunrise ago.
Serene and ready he may have been. But he did not — in the words of the poet — go gentle into that good night.
The fight is at an end, but its story will be told for centuries.
And there will be ANOTHER brilliant St. Peter’s sunrise.
This is MSNBC’s continuing coverage…
Of the death of Pope John Paul the Second.
Pope: Olbermann’s Introduction: “There Will Be Another Brilliant St. Peter’s Sunrise”
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