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.
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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 …
Tribute to WYD Participants
Dear Editor: After reading Dennis Sadowski’s “B’klyn Pilgrims Learn History at Auschwitz” (July 30), I was left with chills, but hope for our future. The photograph of the young pilgrims also spoke volumes.
Better Choice
Dear Editor: In his column (July 2-9), Bishop DiMarzio puts the two presidential candidates on a par and says that choosing between them puts us in a quandary. “Who between them is the better choice to uphold religious freedom?” he asks.
National Suicide Unnecessary
Dear Editor: I would like to respond to Denis Sugrue and Roseanne Cleary regarding my letter of July 13. I am a practicing Catholic with 16 years of Catholic education. I served as a B-52 pilot with two Vietnam tours.
Want to Serve? Be on Time!
Dear Editor: For at least the third time this past Saturday, I have had to “fill in” as a eucharistic minister … only to have one of the “assigned” ministers run up to our pew and say “I am here. I am on the schedule.”
Where Is the Outcry?
Dear Editor: I read with a shade of sadness the exceptional and passionate letter titled “The Shame of Abortion” by “Name Withheld” (July 23). My sadness was not only at the necessity of the message, but also at the national degree of political cowardice…
The Choice for Life Is Clear
Dear Editor: Our Founders believed that the Right to Life precedes all other rights and understood such a right as foundational to personal freedom. … Your vote will make the difference in the direction of our country and in restoring a Culture of Life.