Dear Editor: In response to a letter in your Christmas issue from Margaret M. Cashin, let me respectfully disagree with her belief that the Nativity should be up during Advent with an empty crib.
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Bright Christmas Thanks
Dear Editor: My thanks to you and The Tablet for the Bright Christmas donation. This support is part of our effort to provide toys and food to over 2,000 families.
Word and Sacrament
Dear Editor: It is important at St. Mary’s Church, Long Island City, that “Word and Sacrament” be embraced at all levels and by all age groups, and through every media.
Support March for Life
Dear Editor: With the recent election of Donald Trump, it has been reported that donations to Planned Parenthood have soared. Unfortunately, the lie of making abortions “safe, legal and rare” disseminated by the Democrats and Liberals is definitely a fallacy.
Dugan’s Tenure at SFC
Dear Editor: Just a slight correction in the Tablet obituary for Brendan Dugan. He became president of St. Francis College on July 1, 2008. Therefore he was president for eight-and-a-half years.
Saintly Photo of the Pope
Dear Editor: The Tablet’s photo of Pope Francis walking with World Youth Day pilgrims (Dec. 24-31) is the most poignant and uplifting of any pontifical picture I have ever seen, of any pope.
Truth, Justice, Democracy
Dear Editor: While at the gym, I overheard a lady nearby say, “I can’t understand how anyone can kill another person.” I could not help but interject and say, “That is only because we tend to see others as we are. There are many people who were never trained or educated in what is right or wrong, consequently, they have a very different conscience from those who are.”
The Advent Creche
Dear Editor: Having the opportunity to attend other parishes twice this week – one for a Christmas concert and another for weekday Mass followed by the Miraculous Medal Novena – has not brought me the usual joy that I previously found visiting neighboring churches. There was something missing. It truly saddened me not to see the Nativity displayed in either church.
A Cure for Racism
Dear Editor: It was an interesting juxtaposition of Joe Heller’s political cartoon about the stresses of Christmas shopping on one side of the paper and a letter to the editor agreeing with the commentary of Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Atlanta about how racism is a disease.
Free Exercise of Religion
Dear Editor: Columnist George Weigel (Dec. 17) wrote compellingly of young peoples’ ignorance of American history and civic institutions. Interestingly, in her report on the return of the Christmas spirit to Grand Army Plaza that appeared in the same issue, Antonina Zielinska evinced the very thing Weigel was bemoaning. In explaining why a manger at Grand Army Plaza might face scrutiny, Zielinska chalked it up to “city regulations on separation of church and state and all.”