Dear Editor: I was glad to see recent coverage of church leaders expressing concerns about the American Health Care Act (AHCA). Church leaders were right to critique certain aspects of the Affordable Care Act before, and they are right to critique the AHCA now, all on the basis of how they do or don’t protect the vulnerable.
letters to the editor
Local Fatima Pilgrim
Dear Editor: On Saturday, May 13, I left Our Lady Queen of Martyrs after noon Mass, Confession and the First Joyful Mystery of the Rosary. As I opened the door to leave, I felt the falling rain. I had made a vow the previous summer to take a walk to Our Lady of Fatima Church near LaGuardia Airport.
Advocate for the Disabled
Dear Editor: As we remember all of the great things which Bishop Daily accomplished, let us never forget the love he had for people with all disabilities. He instituted a wonderful advocacy program which sought to make all of our churches and surrounding buildings accessible to people with all disabilities.
Colbert Is Not Cool
Dear Editor: Stephen Colbert recent program was disturbing and disappointing. In my opinion, not only did his disrespectful, tasteless jokes fall flat (on conservative ears, at least), but to have this type of rhetoric spew forth from a Catholic who is so influential, is just base.
An Inspirational Mentor
Dear Editor: Gina Krainchich wrote a wonderful letter about Msgr. Michael Dempsey’s impact as the founder of the Catholic Television Network (CTN).
Techniques of Darkness
Dear Editor: Thomas Groome, a professor of religious education and theology at Boston College, wrote a recent opinion piece in The New York Times (March 27).
Questions Common Cup
Dear Editor: Some readers have recently commented on how they are reluctant to use a handshake to express the Sign of Peace during the Mass because of the possible spread of germs to their hands just prior to receiving Holy Communion, assumedly in the hand. Some others may feel this is a bit extreme, but there does seem to be at least some legitimacy to their concern.
Another Brothers’ Boy
Dear Editor: I remember the De La Salle Christian Brothers from my grammar school days at St. Cecilia’s in Greenpoint.
Franciscans’ Ample Wings
Dear Editor: In 1954, the Grey Nuns, from Queens, told my brother-in-law’s mother that he was headed to the reformatory, so why not send him there. Not willing to give up on her 10-year-old, only child, she found St. Anthony’s in Greenpoint.
Pets Reflect God
Dear Editor: I am responding to Father Robert Lauder’s column (April 29) titled “A Dynamic Love Relationship.” I read with great interest his point of view in the section “All Creatures Resemble God.”
