Letters to the Editor

Letters to the editor | May 4, 2012

Wed, 02 May 2012 20:47:34 +0000

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.

Letters to the Editor | April 20, 2012

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:42:54 +0000

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.

Letters to the editor | April 13, 2012

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:41:34 +0000

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 theSt. 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.

Letters to the Editor | March 30, 2012

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:29:25 +0000

Making a difference

Letters to the Editor | March 16, 2012

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:52:03 +0000

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!

Letters to the editor | March 9, 2012

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:31:36 +0000

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

Letters to the Editor | Feb. 24, 2012

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:04:30 +0000

Vaccine

Regarding "Learning truth and consequences of illicit sex" (Jan. 20), I applaud Dr. (Robert) Bergamini for voluntarily giving presentations on teen sexuality as a medical and moral crisis. However, he touts the HPV vaccine (Gardasil) as a cancer-prevention tool without mentioning the possible adverse reactions, which include death.

Letters to the editor | Feb. 17

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 05:08:54 +0000

Government pork?

After the Obama administration mandate of contraception in health plans, what's next? Perhaps (President Barack) Obama's "nutrition czar" will mandate pork in Jewish diets?

Donald H. Niesse

Our Lady of the

Presentation Parish

Overland

Letters to the editor | Feb. 3, 2012

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:38:50 +0000

Conscience rights

In his two classic biographies of Blessed John Paul II ("Witness to Hope" and "The End and the Beginning: Pope John Paul II -- The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy"), George Weigel depicted how the pope, who lived under communism, understood the importance of religious freedom. His efforts in restoring religious freedom were what turned the tide against the Eastern European communist regimes. For if religious freedom did not exist, neither did other basic freedoms.

Letters to the Editor, Jan. 6, 2012

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:49:14 +0000

12 days of Christmas

Regrettably, Christmas trees have been popping up curbside since Dec. 26. Having endured commercial holiday sights/sounds since early November, it's understandable that folks are ready for change. Still, many Catholic households (and beyond), keep trees and decorations for the full 12 days to Epiphany Jan. 8 (and even till the feast of the Baptism of the Lord, Jan. 9).

Letters to the Editor

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:01:05 +0000

Elderly deserve more

Where charity begins

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:24:15 +0000

Where charity begins

Is the purpose of your editorial ("The good and bad in U.S. immigration laws," Nov. 4) to remind all legal American citizens that it is "right" and "just" to see their tax dollars support the education of children whose parents deliberately broke the law? Sure, successful illegal alien children should have the right to try for scholarships and loans as long as their education is not being supported by tax dollars.

Letters to the editor | Oct. 14, 2011

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:05:56 +0000

Intrinsic evils

The Oct. 7 edition contained two very interesting articles.

One was the USCCB (U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops) launching a new website for "Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizens," listing problems involving opposition to intrinsic evils. Abortion and threats to the lives and dignity of others who are vulnerable were the first listed. The article does not tell Catholics whom to vote for, but the U.S. bishops have stated that this kind of political responsibility is a requirement of our faith.

Letters to the Editor

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:32:08 +0000

Remembering 9/11

The editorial, "Ten years later: We remember" (Sept 9, 2011) was thoughtful, with its emphasis on how the 9/11 victims are "bound together with us" because we are all image of God and its call to remember "in forgiveness and mercy" rather than "hatred or malevolence." Saying "beyond our borders, untold millions the world over remember with us" echoed the Sept. 12, 2001, headline in Le Monde that read, "We are all Americans."

Bishop Johnston thanks the faithful of St. Louis for genrous Jolin aid.

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:53:41 +0000

THANKS FOR JOPLIN SUPPORT

Dear Friends in Christ of the Archdiocese of St. Louis,

These days since the devastating tornado struck the city of Joplin on May 22, 2011, have been very eventful. The scale of destruction and suffering is difficult to describe, and much remains to be done. Yet, there are also too many signs of God's grace to count and much to be grateful for, which brings me to the purpose of this letter.