Letters

First Amendment No Detail Even if the editors of America have no problem (“Policy, Not Liberty, 3/5) with paying for abortion-inducing drugs with funds donated or paid by the faithful, they should jealously guard the rights endowed by our creator and guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. The Fi

Religious Liberty Chair Responds The March 5th America editorial (“Policy, Not Liberty”) takes the United States bishops to task for entering too deeply into the finer points of health care policy as they ponder what the slightly revised Obama administration mandate might mean for the Ca

Responses to Patricia Wittberg’s ‘A Lost Generation?’

Allies, Not Enemies Thank you for the reasonable, eloquent argument in “Taking Liberties” (Editorial, 2/13). Countless numbers of progressive Catholics worked long and hard for health care reform all across this country and believed that this delicate little issue would get resolved as p

A Terrible Irony Is Born In “The Ethical Traveler,” by Tim Padgett (1/30), there is a terrible irony. The author’s calls to abstain from condescension are themselves thoroughly condescending. His pedantic assertions fail to reach beyond the same tired narrative that everyone who ha

Getting Rich by Being Good As one who has participated in socially responsible investing for a number of years, I was initially very interested, but ultimately disappointed in Thomas Healey’s “Good Returns” (1/16). While anyone rightly hopes to earn a reasonable return on a financi

Saving a Poor Man I have just experienced the truth of your editorial “Failure to Protect” (1/30). This week I found a youngish Latvian man living in a field near Dublin airport. He hadn’t eaten in three days. I have never met someone so close to a mental breakdown; he couldn&rsquo

Raise Salaries, Lose Jobs? In response to “Will the Majority Rule?” (Current Comment, 12/12), it is hard to be opposed to the minimum wage. Yet, at the same time, an increase in the minimum wage plays out in an increase in the overall domestic wage structure, broadening the disparity bet

Beware ‘Pastores Dabo Vobis’ Contrary to what Katarina Schuth, O.S.F., reports in “A Change in Formation” (1/2), there is no evidence to suggest that levels of sexual abuse by members of the Catholic clergy concentrated after 1960. Anecdotal evidence abounds of abuse and cove

Conservative Cafeterianism Thank you for two essays in your recent issue: “Remembering Justice,” by Peter Henriot, S.J., and “Blessed Are the Rich,” by John Kavanaugh, S.J. (11/14). Kavanaugh points out George Weigel’s consistent attempt to minimalize and “denigra