Comments on Catholic School Closings
Dear Editor: God bless all the parishes, families, and staff impacted by this (“Diocese Announces Closures of Seven Academies, Vows to Help Assist Families,” Feb. 21).
What has to be done to keep Catholic education alive and available?
Vincent Maligno
Staten Island
Editor’s note: There are charitable organizations within the Diocese of Brooklyn that offer tuition assistance for families wishing to send their children to a Catholic school. Among them, you can donate to Futures in Education or contribute to the Annual Catholic Appeal.
Dear Editor: So incredibly sad that these schools keep closing.
If only people could afford to send their children to Catholic schools like we were able to in the ’70s & ’80s.
Of course, back then, there were nuns to teach, and parents still went to church on Sundays.
Madeline O’Boyle
Hanover Square, New York
Let’s Remember the Cause for Lt. Capodanno
Dear Editor: I am hoping there will be a push for the cause for the canonization of Servant of God Navy Chaplain Lt. Vincent R. Capodanno, Jr., M.M., “The Grunt Chaplain,” awarded, posthumously, the Medal of Honor for sacrificing his life ministering to and aiding fallen U.S. Marines in 1967 in Vietnam.
His cause was abruptly halted in 2019 and has yet to recommence.
Along with my fellow veterans, Catholic and otherwise, I see no person at this time more worthy of being declared a saint: a chaplain, a missionary, a native New Yorker, and a selfless hero for our armed forces.
Fred Ritchie
Staten Island
Abstaining During Lent Builds Spiritual Growth
Dear Editor: When you can have the strength to discipline your body during Lent, that gives you the strength to grow in your spirit.
It is the doing without that tests our resolve and love for Jesus, in the great sacrifice of love He did for us.
Lent is a time of spiritual growth and sacrifice for the love of God.
Irene Crea
Garden City, New York