Dear Editor: The letter “Messianic Complex” (Jan. 28) by Rose Emma, pinpoints exactly what’s ailing the U.S. Catholic Church. Many of our church leaders are quick to jump on the band wagon and wipe the slate for the new president, regardless of the fact that he has made a mockery of basic principles of our Church all because of campaign promises that supposedly will be to its benefit.
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Two Standards for Judging
Dear Editor: What is really galling is former President Obama’s personal statements that totally contradict his so-called concern for climate change.
Compatible with the Law
Dear Editor: I want to thank Ana A. Garcia for spelling out what nobody seems to want to hear when she said openly and honestly “disregarding American laws and sovereignty is not to be admired or supported.”
Support for Immigrants
Dear Editor: Hooray for Father Ray Roden and the people of Our Lady of Sorrows Parish in Corona (March 4). I worked at the parish school several years ago as a teacher and I have never met people who are more kind and generous. They might not have as much money as some of us, but they are always willing to give and give and give. This is the spirit of America that should give all of us heart.
Preparing for Haiti
Dear Editor: For a long time on my “bucket list” has been the opportunity to visit Haiti – the homeland of many families I have grown to love these many years in ministry. Of course “My Kids,” my teen group, some now with teens of their own, are high among them. From March 13-20, I will be part of an immersion experience in Haiti with some members of the Federation of Sisters of Saint Joseph. I am so grateful for this opportunity and am most certain it will expand a sense and need for care, compassion and unity with every “dear neighbor.”
Negative Reviews of Film
Dear Editor: I disagree with letter writer Thomas C. Cullinane’s (Feb. 11) praise for Martin Scorsese’s latest assault on Catholic truth and wisdom by making a film that justifies the world’s oldest moral rationalization: the ends justify the means, or what the Church has always condemned as consequentialism. Each of the trillions of times this idea is advanced, without exaggeration, it is presented as a revolutionary original new way of thinking. It reflects our corrupt human nature and the vanity of original sin.
What Fake News?
Dear Editor: Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) said recently that “If you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press.” He added that dictators “get started by suppressing free press.”
Normalizing Trump
Dear Editor: I beg of you, please stop! As a regular reader of the Tablet, I find your attempts to normalize President Donald Trump to be disturbing. Case in point: your Feb. 25 editorial, filled with pietistic language, attempting to make some kind of moral equivalence between Trump and his press critics. All presidents had issues with the press. Some journalists have always been unscrupulous. That is routine.
A Medicinal Tablet
Dear Editor: As a very long-time reader, I thank God for the modern Tablet. In those long ago years, I used to consider it a bitter pill, with the weekly columns of Fathers McBrien and Greeley, and lack of response to complaints of the political slant of the publication.
Talking About Immigration
Dear Editor: Kudos to Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio (Put Out Into the Deep, Feb. 18) for his outspoken and deeply Christian stance on immigrants, whether they be illegal or not.