Letters

Relax, They Won’t Hurt I have just perused the changes referred to in “Musicians Prepare for Coming Changes in Mass Text” (8/2). They are very minor. They seem to reflect a return to translations that older members might remember from the joint Latin-English missals. In this respec

Relax, They Won’t Hurt I have just perused the changes referred to in “Musicians Prepare for Coming Changes in Mass Text” (8/2). They are very minor. They seem to reflect a return to translations that older members might remember from the joint Latin-English missals. In this respec

There Is No Defense Is the kind of question posed by Kevin O’Rourke, O.P., in “Complications” (8/2) useful in the public forum? Could it hurt the church? Bishops can be wrong, and when evidence of their wrongful decisions comes to light, appropriate actions should be taken to recti

Make Room on the Scrap Heap? Re “Repeating History” (Current Comment, 7/19): The editors’ commentary on the G-20 meeting seems to assume that economic conditions in 1930 and 2010 are similar, that the global economy is in the best interests of everyone and that tax cuts and deficit

Zero Programs Re “Justice for Juniors” (Editorial, 7/15): Here in Maryland we have an incompetent Department of Juvenile Justice “functioning” in an outmoded statutory framework. It provides some services at the lower end of the seriousness scale. For youth who approach age 1

Correct but Uncertain Re “Uninformed Conscience,” by John F. Kavanaugh, S.J. (6/ 21): The author says, quoting Aquinas, that conscience may be certain but not correct. It strikes me that conscience can also be correct but not certain! This dilemma is caused by the convergence of moral ob

Placing the Blame Your editorial “Adrift in the Gulf” (6/21) is by far the best commentary I’ve read on the oil spill. I lived on the Texas coast for 20 years, working as a volunteer and professional with several coastal conservation organizations. I have lost count of how many acr

Unfortunate Misunderstanding Please allow me to respond to two letters that appeared in your May 31 issue concerning the liturgical use of the capa magna at the solemn pontifical Mass celebrated by Bishop Slattery in Washington, D.C. Bishop Slattery has received close to 2,000 letters and e-mail mes

Please Package and Post Please package the two editorials (“Pilgrim People, Part I” and “Pilgrim People, Part II,” 5/10 and 5/17) and circulate them everywhere. We who work for reform in the church have been working for these structural changes for almost 30 years. I am so pl

W.W.J.D. Thank you for the small photo in News Briefs (5/10). The image of Bishop Edward J. Slattery in his crimson robe with yards of train borne by some flunky speaks volumes about how far the Catholic Church has strayed from being the creation of Jesus. Evangelicals asked a question decades ago: