Dear Editor: Republicans are the good guys? In what world have you been living in for the past several decades?
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Church’s Social Teaching
Dear Editor: Without getting involved in a (tired) Democrat-Republican fight on social policy (Readers’ Forum, April 7), a long hard look at Catholic social teaching will reveal an unstinting progressive attitude in matters of social thought.
Greenpoint Idol
Dear Editor: In the 1940s, our neighbor Margie Greenwood sang on Major Bowes’ Amateur Hour.
Remembering Rusty
Dear Editor: We attended the funeral Mass for Rusty Staub in St. Edward’s Roman Catholic Church in Palm Beach, Fla.
Catholics on the Tube
Dear Editor: It is a given that the cable/satellite channel Fox News presents itself unabashedly as America’s bastion of all that is good and wholesome in government, culture, and social conduct, a beacon of traditional values and moral rectitude.
Beauty of the Organ
Dear Editor: Roseanne Cleary (“Funeral vs Funereal,” April 7) writes: “…heavy, plodding dirges from antiquated church organs that threatened to suck the very air from our souls.” She seems to overlook the fact that the organ is still the official musical instrument of the Church.
Purpose of a Funeral
I take exception to the tone of RoseAnne Cleary’s letter (April 7) concerning the Catholic funeral Mass.
Democrats vs. Catholics
Your article “Cardinal Dolan: Democrats Abandon Catholic Values” (March 31) states that the good Cardinal wrote in the Wall Street Journal that he was saddened Democrats were attacking Catholics and their faith. Why? He must have known the Democratic Party has pushed a culture of death (abortion) that has resulted in the deaths of millions and millions of babies. While every Sunday, Catholic pulpits have been silent!
Senseless Murder
God bless Father Dagoberto Noguera. I will pray for him. We have lost another priest in another senseless violent act, but God has another angel, and at such a price.
First-Grade Teacher
Sister Marymel (Sister Patricia Dolores Wagner, O.P., Obituary, Jan. 6) was my first-grade teacher and I remember her as creative in the classroom and endlessly kind to me as I cried my way through every day of that first school year.