Letters to the Editor

Help the children

Parents who work or go to school and receive child care subsidies are trying to make a better life for themselves and their children. Eliminating these subsidies threatens parents' livelihood and their children as well.

Right now, the legislature is cutting over $5 million in child care subsidies and millions in other children's funding that impact foster care and adoption, and child abuse and neglect.

This does not need to happen: the money is there, if the Senate passes the tax amnesty bill.

Religious responsibility

Since the Baby Boomer generation has such a liberal view of moral right or wrong, my latest Time Almanac provides some interesting statistics. It indicates 234,660,700, or 82.6 percent of the nation's population espouse to be Christians.

Human trafficking injustice

The Justice Office of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet would like to commend Archbishop Carlson for his Easter message in the April 6 edition of the St. Louis Review, speaking to the issue of human trafficking. This is an issue that is very dear to the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet.

Making a difference

Risky behavior

The picture of the dorm room with a young woman sitting on her bed with a boy in shorts sitting six feet away ("Campus programs tackle alcohol abuse, binge drinking," March 2) was not an appropriate image for our Catholic paper.

Since many of the universities and colleges today have an open-door policy, is it any wonder that many young people are led into risky behavior? Parents would be well-advised to research the policies of the schools that their young people wish to attend. Their souls are under attack!

Hitler?

As a former reporter for the St. Louis Review and a lifetime Catholic of 75 years, I was shocked and saddened by the Review's publication of Martin Niemoeller's famous statement against Hitler's policies in Nazi Germany with the story "Are the Quakers next?" in the March 2 issue. To suggest any comparison of the U.S. government's mandated coverage of contraceptives by Catholic institutions with Hitler's brutal slaying of millions of men, women and children, mostly Jews, is simply outrageous.

Margaret M. "Peggy" Carlan