Dear Editor: In early May, twenty ladies gathered together in the home of Sister Ave Clark to be part of a listening discussion on “Celebrating Women’s Voices” lead by Dr. Gloria Durka. Dr. Durka taught Theology at Fordham University for 34 years.
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See? There Is a God
Dear Editor: I enjoyed reading Msgr. Robert Pawson’s beautiful story, his fifty year journey must have been so rewarding and a life for filling adventure (“Reflecting on 50 Years Of Being a Priest,”May 2016 ).
God Bless America
Dear Editor: ‘God Bless America’ I always thought was a paean to the wonders of America and Kate Smith was a great patriotic entertainer who was dedicated to our soldiers at war.
Evolution and St. Augustine
Dear Editor: The concept of evolution sits well with St. Augustine’s interpretation of creation but he would have treated the proposition of ‘natural selection as an impersonal force reacting only to physical circumstance of random mutations, merely to perpetuate biological life in whatever form it happens to take’ as a heresy.
School Choice
Dear Editor: Reader Gerald De Maio writes about school choice and the recent outrage by many since there is a lack of minority students (blacks and Hispanics) in the city’s specialized high schools (“A Catholic Solution,”Letters to the Editor, May 4). While Gerard’s letter is accurate, he fails to mention the dirty little secret that our politicians or the liberal media don’t want to touch.
Persecuted Christians
Dear Editor: The seemingly “new” assault, the depraved torture and mass murder of Christians and Catholics in particular, in places like Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Syria, Iraq, etc., are not really new, but in some instances, date back to Jesus’ earthly journey and institution of His Church (“Easter Attacks on Churches in Sri Lanka Are Tragic, but Hardly Surprising,” April 27).
Abortion and Mercy
Dear Editor: I wanted to express my profound gratitude to you for the beautiful Editorial you wrote in the April 20 edition of The Tablet! (“Rachel’s Helpers and the Mystery of Easter Sunday,” Editor’s Space). They sent it to me on Holy Thursday and I sat in my car and cried. What a gift of the Holy Spirit this was!
Father Casey
Dear Editor: Father Anthony Casey and I enjoyed many years of friendship (“Irish-born Father Anthony Casey Was a Priest for 54 Years,” Obituaries, Oct. 2012).
Acceptable Labels
Dear Editor: Alexander Trachtenberg, who died in 1966, was an American publisher of radical political books and pamphlets. He was a longtime activist in the Socialist Party of America and in the Communist Party USA. He once said that when communism came to America it would come under the label of “progressive democracy.” It will come, he said, in labels acceptable to the American people.
K. of C. at St. John’s
Dear Editor: They chose the right person for the job: Victoria O’Keefe (“Catholic Relief Services Gets an Assist from St. John’s Campus,” April 6). She did great work at LIU and now we know that she will continue work at St. John’s University.