She was a great journalist and loved her Catholic faith. She was always generous with advice and spent time mentoring young Catholic journalists (including some CV staff). She was universally loved in Washington and was a frequent guest on cable TV. We were honored to have Kate O’Beirne speak about the 2016 elections at the CatholicVote Summit last summer. Read this wonderful tribute by her friend and colleague Ramesh Ponnuru.
She brought a witty and well-informed conservatism to a national television audience as well through weekly appearances on CNN’s marquee political talk show “Capital Gang.” Conservatives were outnumbered there as on cable news generally at that time, but it never seemed that way as long as she was on.
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Kate was a quiet apostle for the Catholic faith, taking great satisfaction in the people she had brought, or brought back, to it, and cooking for priests who would “eat me out of house and home.” Reverence was never a chore for her. Leaving last year’s National Catholic Prayer Breakfast — one of her final public outings — she saw a favorite priest tipping a bellman, she thought, inadequately. She gently corrected him: “Father, you took a vow of poverty, not him.”
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