Dear Editor: There are those who consider themselves Catholic for social, cultural, or political purposes, but who reject basic religious or moral catholic doctrines.

Dear Editor: I am writing this letter in memory of my grandmother and in respect for my mother. Both my grandmother and mother came to the United States legally as immigrants. Each became a proud American citizen within five years.

Dear Editor: As a retired high school English teacher, I am always intently focused on the weekly commentaries of Father Robert Lauder. His “Forming Conscience Thought Catholic Novels”(Nov. 10) brought back memories of my readings of Flannery O’Connor.

Dear Editor: I would like to take a moment to congratulate Ms. Jennifer Baptiste, a true model of lay leadership, who was honored for her ministry as a missionary disciple at the diocese’s 50th anniversary of lay leadership celebration (“Diocese Celebrates Five Decades of Lay Leadership,”Nov. 17).

Dear Editor: I would respond to Mr. Lancucki (An Anti-Catholic Bias, The Readers’ Forum, Sept. 29) that everything he wrote about the Democratic Party “there is no honor … only an unquenchable thirst for power by any means necessary” actually applies to the Republican Party.

Dear Editor: I read about Pope Saint Paul VI and his faith (The First Modern Pope, The Tablet, Oct. 20) and understood why he was so loved yet also hated by some.

Dear Editor: My heart cries out for your lost loved ones, and for all those left behind, family, friends, congregants, for such a heinous crime… My prayers are with all of you and your suffering.