Dear Editor: Once upon a time, when the elementary school at Our Lady of Victory Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant was still running, there was a group of exemplary nuns who, alongside teaching the basics of fundamental education, made a point of helping black students understand their identity and culture by disseminating the teachings of black public figures, including Malcolm X.

Dear Editor: As much as I am a firm believer in hope, I couldn’t help but take note of Father Hemrick’s comment, “And we must wonder what life would be without hope of returning to God after this life” (“Having Hope in 2018,” Jan. 6).

Dear Editor: Recently, the pope spoke about the responsibility of journalists. The truth or lack thereof is not the only element to take into consideration.

Dear Editor: Some time ago, when someone unintentionally said something ethnically offensive, I wasn’t sure how to explain why it was offensive.

Dear Editor: Reader Mary Geraghty (Feb. 10) writes: “His (Trump’s) vitriol towards these unfortunates violates one of this nation’s greatest values to welcome the poor and the hungry . . .”

Dear Editor: The excellent article (Feb. 10) on the views of Bishop George V. Murray, S.J., attempts to answer why many Catholics are progressive toward the poor who are Hispanic, but are reactionary to the poor in black America.

Dear Editor: On behalf of the people of St. Joseph’s Co-Cathedral parish, I write to express my sincere gratitude for The Tablet’s Bright Christmas donation. I know your gift made a real difference in the lives of 20 different families.

Dear Editor: By discouraging (Jan. 13) the reading of “The Dictator Pope,” and “Fire and Fury,”you are giving credence to the supposition that Catholics are sheep without intellectual curiosity and unable to distinguish fact from fiction.

Dear Editor: Anyone with a sense of the Christian paradoxical, the light of truth spoken by Our Lord throughout the Gospels and replicated rhetorically by luminaries like Chesterton and Lewis, knows that there is no greater foolhardiness than a mind seeking to prove its intelligence or greater cruelty than a life trying to prove benevolence.