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.
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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.
Think for Yourself
“Count the people you know who do not think ready-made thoughts, speak ready-made words, voice ready-made opinions, and even feel ready-made emotions. How many people do you know who do not follow ready-made political platforms, accept ready-made economic programs, and have as their life aim some ready-made financial goal? No wonder one witty Frenchman said, ‘These people do not think or speak – they simply echo.’”
Holocaust
Since the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision in 1973, over 50 million babies have been slaughtered in our country because of abortion.
Not Representative of Faith
It is not enough to say “Letters to the editor do not represent the views of the paper.”
Deacon Served in Williamsburg
Dear Editor: In 1959, I left the Trappist Monastery in Kentucky where I was a lay brother. I am now 85 and retired from the New York State Corrections where I was a narcotics parole officer and later a prison counselor.
Don’t Equate Killings
Dear Editor: Regarding your editorial “Why This Evil?” (July 16), I find it offensive to equivalently write about the police shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota and the intentional murder of five police officers in Dallas as “unspeakable tragedies.”
Grateful for Latin Mass
Dear Editor: Many thanks to Father Fred Marano, pastor of SS. Simon and Jude parish, Gravesend, for celebrating a Novus Ordo Latin Mass on Sunday, July 31. The Mass was celebrated “Ad Orientem” (facing the East).
The Republican Platform
Dear Editor: I wonder whether some of your readers have read and understand the official 2016 platform of the Republican Party, or are they one-issue voters. Some seem to be concerned only with “restoring a Culture of Life” and while I too oppose abortion, I have read the full text of …