Dear Editor: Being that the Catholic Church is a tax-exempt organization, it should refrain from publishing letters or telling its members to vote for one candidate or another.
Author: settinger
Get Priorities Straight
Dear Editor: I am amazed at the women who find President Trump unacceptable because he used trash talk several years ago.
Climate Control Warning
Dear Editor: It is troubling that President Trump is now questioning climate science and is threatening to pull out of the Paris Accords in which almost 200 nations will work to reduce carbon emissions.
Attending Inauguration
Dear Editor: I’m writing to say how appalled and disappointed I am that our Cardinal Dolan will be participating in Trump’s Inauguration.
Cardinal at Inauguration
Dear Editor: I am replying to Rosemary Parker (Jan. 21) who was disappointed with Cardinal Dolan’s participation in Mr. Trump’s Inauguration.
Disciples, Stay Salty
by Father Jean-Pierre Ruiz, YOU EITHER LOVE it or you loathe it! What am I talking about? Bacalao, of course! Dried, salted codfish.
What It Means to Be Catholic First
by Richard Doerflinger
THIS PAST PRESIDENTIAL campaign, one of the most bruising and discouraging on record, left many of us dissatisfied with the electoral system and politics in general. As usual, Catholics voted for the winning candidate – despite internal divisions between churchgoers and nonchurchgoers and between white and Hispanic Catholics.
We Do Not Choose the Hour of Our Death
I recently read Jojo Moyes’ “Me Before You” about a young man, paralyzed in a motorcycle accident who heads off to an assisted-suicide clinic. Society will continue to attempt to convince us that allowing others to express their “right to choose” is a selfless act. Yet the challenge to accept God’s right to choose when we die is much more difficult.
Another New Translation
Through Catholic news sources like the Jesuit-run America Magazine, there are reports that Pope Francis has decided to create a mixed commission to study Liturgicam Authenticam, the decree that called for all translations of liturgical texts to use the principle of formal equivalence. Formal equivalence differs from dynamic equivalence, which seeks to communicate more of the meaning of the text, rather than a direct translation or transliteration. Dynamic equivalence was the principle of translation used for liturgical texts for many years immediately following the Second Vatican Council.
Bright Christmas Thanks
Dear Editor: Greetings from Trinity Human Services Corporation (THSC)! On behalf of our Executive Director, Father Pedro De Oliveira, O.F.M. Conv., and the staff and volunteers at THSC, I would like to express our heartfelt appreciation for the Bright Christmas donation. Your grant helped us provide Christmas gifts for many children in our neighborhood. You […]