Dear Editor: We are overjoyed to congratulate Father Robert W. Czok and the Class of 1966 for their 50 years of ordination to the priesthood.
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Teen’s Family Grateful
Dear Editor: I want to thank Maria-Pia Negro Chin for the great article “Queens Teen Has Heart Set on a Medical Career” (April 23) on Gregory Nelson.
Visitor from Fatima
Dear Editor: I was at Our Lady of Guadalupe for the visit of the Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima. Msgr. Romano, pastor, gave some beautiful words about how Our Lady watches over. She watches over the police department of which he is a police chaplain.
New Pastoral Graduates
Dear Editor: Congratulations to the Pastoral Institute’s Class of 2016. Another class of lay ministers is now available to serve the needs of the Diocese of Brooklyn.
Keeping Priests Healthy
Dear Editor: It was encouraging to read (“Priest Must Be Healthy to Be an Effective Priest,” May 7) that the diocese had sponsored a “Day of Health and Wellness” for the priests of Brooklyn and Queens.
Bernie’s Concerns Are Valid
Dear Editor: In George Weigel’s recent column (May 14) titled “Now What?,” he refers to a number of politicians, and political parties past and present, in unflattering terms. As a columnist, that is his right. But I take offense to this statement criticizing Senator Bernie Sanders: “What about the …
Skewed Analysis of Trump
Dear Editor: I was moved to respond after reading two columns in the May 14 edition – one written by Father Anthony Raso, “Unlikely Apostles, Then and Now,” and the other by George Weigel, entitled, “Now What?”
Questions About Mercy
Dear Editor: I’ve never been more disappointed in an editorial than that which praised Pope Francis’ exhortation as a “game changer.” Life is not a game, and God does not give us mercy to abuse it.
Correction on Letter
Dear Editor: I wrote a letter which you published (May 7) about opioid addiction. While I appreciate your publishing this, it did contain a major misprint.
Tributes to Father Berrigan
Dear Editor: I have just returned from the wake and funeral Mass in Manhattan for Father Daniel Berrigan, S.J. He was a moral giant and, like Father Des Wilson, Father Raymond Murray and Father Joseph McVeigh, a brother and great friend of the Irish in the North who want to rid England of its last colony, forever. He will be sorely missed.