Dear Editor: I first participated in New York’s great St. Patrick’s Day Parade in 1938, became a delegate in 1958, was an Aide to Grand Marshal Paul O’Dwyer in 1974, and was myself the Grand Marshal in 1986. I can tell you without reservation that no one was ever prohibited from participating in this parade because of their sexual orientation. All this controversy is media made and totally untrue.
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National Debt Is No Joke
Dear Editor: The cartoon in The Tablet states that Donald Trump could pay the national debt by himself. Although this is meant as a joke, it reflects the common ignorance of large figures… . To pay the national debt, we would need 1,535 Trumps.
Women Needed at Future Synods
Dear Editor: The absence of more women being involved in Church matters is like the Dark Ages’ ancient laws: no women allowed.
The Communion Debate
Dear Editor: Nobody seriously thought that the Church might change a dogma or an ex cathedra moral teaching regarding giving Holy Communion to civilly remarried Catholics or to practicing homosexuals. However, toning down a serious offense against God may have the opposite effect from what was intended.
A Pathway for Immigrants
Ramon Quinn Ramirez’s letter (Sept. 12) was only partially correct. Our ancestors had a hard time. The difference is that they came here legally and if they couldn’t make it here, they returned home.
Love in Sheepshead Bay
Dear Editor: My very good friend just celebrated his 90th birthday. I wanted to do something special since he is so very special and I thought a special thing would be to declare my admiration in “The Tablet” since he is a faithful reader and devout Catholic.
A Friend to the Haitians
Dear Editor: A friend of the Haitian refugees has passed. In the 1980s, Father Peter W. Zendzian assisted Haitian refugees resettled by the office for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Refugees (PCMR) of USCCB and Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Brooklyn at the Diocesan Migration Office of Brooklyn and later at PCMR in Washington, D.C.
Catholics: Examine Your Vote
Dear Editor: Election Day is fast approaching. Is there any hope that the Catholics in this diocese will finally wake up and take religion and traditional morality seriously of a change? Two things are necessary: Catholics must turn out like the Orthodox Jews and vote; and they must vote to support the moral values of our Church, traditional values found in the Declaration of Independence, the foundation of our country and its rise to greatness.
Presence of a Brooklyn Nun
Dear Editor: I was delighted to read the article about Sister Anne Credidio (“Brooklyn Nun Reaches to Society’s Untouchables,” Oct. 17) and the work she is doing in Ecuador among the lepers. All who know her are touched by her goodness and generosity of spirit.
Esopus
Dear Editor: Since you requested that readers share a memory of a Religious Brother, I offer you this one.
Forty-one years ago last spring, three Marist Brothers of the Province of Esopus met to talk about an idea and a hope.