Dear Editor: I enjoyed reading Father Christopher Heanue’s story (Dec. 12) about the newborn found in Holy Child Jesus Church. I especially enjoyed the three themes for evangelization.
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Yes, Santa Claus Lives!
Dear Editor: Each year, Patricia Daly, our fourth grade teacher shares the letter and response for: “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus.”
Speaking Against War
Dear Editor: Thanks to Karen Osborne for her Dec. 5 column challenging teens to “Start Building a Peaceful Future.”
Everyone’s Role Model
Dear Editor: I know Tom Bowers (Readers’ Forum, Nov. 7) because he is my daughter-in-law’s grandfather. He is everything and more that Jean has described. An honorable and sweet man who doesn’t know the meaning of evil or unkind.
The Great Sister Estelle
Dear Editor: Sister Mary Estelle, R.S.M., (Obituaries, Nov. 21) was a wonderful lady. She was my homeroom teacher at Mater Christi H.S. Working beside her was always a joy.
Great Astoria Anniversary
Dear Editor: Such a wonderful occasion to celebrate Our Lady of Mount Carmel’s 175th anniversary in Astoria (Nov. 21)! My two sisters (Linda and Mary) and I attended OLMC school. We had the Sisters of St. Joseph teaching us. I graduated in January, 1955 (I went on to St Joseph’s H.S. in Downtown Brooklyn as did my two sisters; also being taught there by the Sisters of St. Joseph).
End-of-Life Decisions
Dear Editor: Thank you for reporting on “A Catholic Look at End of Life Issues,” (Nov. 12). It is a very important and all too avoided subject. Compassion and Choices (the agency directing the physician-assisted suicide movement) has run a tremendously successful campaign to devalue human life when its truly vulnerable – that is sinful.
The Cost to the Taxpayers
Dear Editor: During the debate about immigration several points are never discussed: the cost to the taxpayers of this country, especially the middle class, is enormous; free medical and dental; free education, even free tuition at our colleges to the children of aliens, who displace naturalized and native citizens; Section 8 housing, whereby the taxpayer pays 70 percent of the rent. The list goes on and on.
Ayn Rand Not the Devil
Dear Editor: The letter of Rick O’Conell (“Parade Never Discriminated,” Nov. 14) from the affluent neighborhood of Little Neck, attacks the Catholic Paul Ryan, accusing him of being an admirer of Ayn Rand.
Age Is Just a Number
Dear Editor: The very first line of the back-page article (“Lidia Opens Up Her Menus for the Popes,” Nov. 7) reads as such: “Lydia Bastianich, even at 68, is working like crazy.”