Dear Editor: I write to thank you for your clear and courageous Editor’s Space (Aug. 22) about the war going on that most people don’t realize, in the midst of entertainment gossip, as you put it. That’s a strong message, very well written, and a fine example of what the Catholic press can be doing.
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Where Is Sister Clare?
Dear Editor: I am writing to see if you can help me locate a Sister of St. Joseph. I believe that the motherhouse was located in Brentwood, L.I. The Sister was Sister Clare Joseph, C.S.J., (Eileen Blake). When I knew her, she taught at Blessed Sacrament Elementary School, Cypress Hills, around the years 1956 to the mid ’60s. Her name came up in conversation recently. Family and fellow students were wondering if she can be reached and located.
Great Brooklyn Outreach
Dear Editor: A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled across an advertisement in The Tablet: The San Damiano Food Festival in Williamsburg. I was truly overjoyed to learn of this. I sent off an email inquiring more about it and received a heartfelt response from Father Russell Governale, O.F.M., Conv.
Homelessness
Dear Editor: Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio are feuding about who is to blame and how much the state and the city are spending on the homeless problem. And yet more people are living on the streets and in shelters. There are now 56,000 men, women, and children living in emergency shelters and thousands more living in the streets.
Religion and Environment
Dear Editor: Pope Francis in “Laudato si’” recognizes a climate “catastrophe” and “millions of premature deaths” from carbon burning pollutants, and demands massive decarbonization and conversion to renewables starting “without delay” “in the next few years.”
There Is Crying in Baseball
Dear Editor: Jim Mancari really hit one out of the park with his recent column “There Is Crying in Baseball, After All” (Aug. 22). I’ve been a Mets’ fan since 1962 when I lived in Brooklyn. It’s been said that when we die, Mets’ fans go straight to Heaven and not to Purgatory. We have been through Hell already.
Ecology’s Connectivity
Dear Editor: My deepest thanks to Bishop DiMarzio for his “Put Out into the Deep” column on Pope Francis’s encyclical, “Laudato Si’, On Care For Our Common Home” (July 22). I was especially moved by the Bishop’s memories of how his own grandfather “Francesco” embodied one of the points Pope “Francesco” stresses in his encyclical, never wasting what God has given us, never colluding in today’s “throwaway” culture.
Weigel Right on Education
Dear Editor: George Weigel’s Aug. 15 column (“The Perils of “Preferred Peers’”) about the quality of education at many colleges is excellent and ought to be required reading for anyone involved in the college-selection process.
The Church of History
Dear Editor: George Weigel and Prof. Stark’s interpretations of Cardinal Kasper (“Understanding Cardinal Walter Kasper,” National Catholic Register, July 11) are distorted. Weigel praises and quotes from Stark that Cardinal Kasper’s concept of history undermines the eternal truth of Christ. Stark, in National Catholic Register, even went as far as calling Cardinal Kasper as one suffering from dementia, a sophist, an agnostic modernist, and nearing apostasy.
Always the Dean to Students
Dear Editor: It brings me tremendous sadness to learn of the passing of my mentor, friend and confidant, also long-time Tablet sports columnist, Bernie Beglane. I think that’s the first time I ever referred to him as anything other than Dean. He was always my dean and I was forever his pupil.