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.”
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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.
A Pro-Trump Paper?
Dear Editor: I was surprised at the amount of space that you gave to the pro-life march in Washington, but on the other hand I did not find any information regarding the discrimination of Muslim-born immigrants practically until I got to the middle of the newspaper.
Wish Success to President
Dear Editor: I am responding to the letter “Messianic Complex,” (Jan. 25). Ever since Donald Trump won the election for POTUS, the collective left has thrown a tantrum (and started violent and destructive riots) like none seen before.
Unite Behind the Winners
Dear Editor: This year I turned 86 years of age. During my life, it has always been my opinion that people of the world admired and had respect for our country due to, in part, the unity and strength of our citizens; and that through our political system we remained united in doing what was best for our country, politics aside.
History of Immigration
Dear Editor: The engagement of the Church on behalf of “the right of every person to migrate” (Archbishop Bernardito, Feb. 11) is eloquent and inspiring. The long history of this engagement may be less well known to our readers.
Compromise on Immigration
Dear Editor: I came to this country legally as a refugee a very long time ago. I believe in law and order because your sense of justice is offended or you don’t feel safe in a country when laws are not enforced.
Stop the Discrimination
Dear Editor: As concerned Muslim, Catholic and Jewish leaders, we are deeply concerned about the recent executive order, which temporarily restricts travel to the U.S. from seven Muslim-majority nations.