Dear Editor: Blessed Mother Teresa was canonized Sept. 4 for her life of service to God’s poor.
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The Choice Is Clear!
Dear Editor: I dislike hearing from Christans that they will not vote for either Clinton or Trump because they are both horrible. My statement: “So you think that Clinton or Trump are bad, but who is ‘badder’?” Yes, Trump is not as polished a politician as are the very smooth Clintons, but do you really want Mrs. Clinton to continue the policies of Obama? Did you forget about the Little Sisters of the Poor? Did you forget about the condoning of baby body parts for sale? Did you forget about the admiration both Obama and Mrs. Clinton have for the late Saul Alinsky?
What ‘Law’?
Dear Editor: James Mack, in an otherwise unobjectionable letter (Aug. 20), accepts the term, “the law of the land” for Roe v. Wade. That has never been approved as a law, to the contrary, it nullified the laws of almost all the states, in an act of judicial abuse. To accept such erroneous terminology is tantamount to surrendering the argument.
Setting Standards
Dear Editor: Brenda Becker Walker (Aug. 20) says she is ashamed of letters that point out some factual realities that, despite her claims of being a journalist, she apparently blocks out of her mind without even-handed consideration.
Pieces of Diocesan History
Dear Editor: Ed Wilkinson’s column about the transferring of the remains of three Bishops to the crypt at the Immaculate Conception Pastoral Center in Douglaston was a great history lesson. I especially noted the fact that Bishop Charles E. McDonnell was responsible for the establishment of 30 parishes in Queens. May I tell you about […]
Don’t Forget Polish Victims
Dear Editor: This is the answer to Dennis Sadowski’s “Brooklyn Pilgrims Learn History at Auschwitz” (July 30). Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, and the Poles became the first people in Europe to experience the Holocaust. Hitler made clear even before the German invasion of Poland that: “The destruction of Poland is our primary […]
A Teen’s Tragic Death
Dear Editor: I am very sorry to hear about the tragic death of Daniel Fitzpatrick and my heartfelt condolences go out to his family. I was shocked to learn that Daniel attended a Catholic school. All four of my children have attended Catholic elementary and high schools in both the Brooklyn/Queens and Rockville Centre dioceses. […]
Tribute to Sister Mary
Dear Editor: It was with deep sadness that I read about the passing of Sister Mary Matthias Slaymaker, C.S.J. in The Tablet (Obituaries, Aug. 6). I had the good fortune of having her as my grade-eight teacher at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Grammar School, Sunset Park. I had had a difficult grade seven and was fearful that grade eight would be more of the same.
Today’s Catholic Witness
Dear Editor: It is agonizing to witness the failure of Catholic witness in our times. Barbara Bolton (Readers’ Forum, “The Choice for Life Is Clear,” Aug. 6) appears convinced that abortion is a trifling consideration in her contentions about the experience and preferable temperament of Hillary Clinton to her opponent, despite Clinton’s megalomaniacal criminally and temperamental mendacity.
Remembering Father Valencia
Recently, The Tablet reported on the passing of Father Carlos Valencia, former pastor of St. John Evangelist in the mid-1990s.