Letters

Death in a Jar In response to your current comments “Death in Connecticut,” followed by “How Graphic?” (11/29): Until we as a society demand that the death penalty be abolished, it will continue to be used as a method of revenge. Many murders are so heinous that viscerally we

God Wills It Re your editorial “Two Peoples, One State” (11/15): You do not know what you are saying and whom you are confronting. You are confronting the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, who himself set the borders of Israel. In fact, Israel is the only nation on earth whose borders hav

Women Suffer Your editorial, “A Saint for Our Time,” and John Anderson’s film review, “The Seer” (both in 10/18) concern two women in the church who lived centuries apart: Mother Mary MacKillop and Hildegard of Bingen. They had in common that they had to work hard and s

Disgruntled vs. Gruntled According to your editorial “Voting Bloc” (10/25), the disgruntled folk are the more energized portion of the electorate. For sure they are the most energetic bloggers. But allow me as a reasonably “gruntled” citizen to put in a word. The Obama admini

How Dare You? Your editorial “Israel’s Choice” (10/18) is a classic example of your bias. Negotiating means give-and-take on both sides. Placing exclusive blame for the possible breakdown of peace negotiations between Palestinians and Israel on the building of settlements in the We

Do It My Way I write to suggest a better way to eliminate poverty than that proposed by your editorial “Robbing Peter to Pay” (9/27). It’s time to change fundamentally the way our society approaches poverty. We should lobby Congress to rewrite the tax code so that tax money used fo

Catholic and Corporate Drew Christiansen, S.J., rightly says in “A Conspiracy of Bishops and Faithful” (9/27) that a revival of the church in the United States “will be fully realized when there is wide consultation and cooperation by the bishops with Catholics of varying shades of

Getting Our Money’s Worth I wish Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan had spent more time presenting the “evidence” he so briefly cites in “The Catholic Schools We Need” (9/13). Much of this reference material is not readily available to me. And I need a clearer definition of Ca

The Model Gentleman “Conspiracy of Bishops and Faithful,” by Drew Christiansen, S.J. (9/27), reminds me that the 19th-century prose and even the poetry of John Henry Newman may be a little hard for today’s readers to digest. But to read him, even to meditate on his seamless logic,

Shortsighted Your comment “The Real Islam” (8/30) is shortsighted. The real Islam is either powerless—or unwilling—to take down the death squads and training centers of terrorists in their midst. These terrorists are knocking down our gates in the name of God on every front,