Reader Rebecca G. Janski’s September 23 letter said she was upset because Tim Townsend’s article on Central Reform Congregation Rabbi Susan Talve receiving a national award devoted too much to recalling Talve’s ordaining two women as Catholic priest as a…
In his response to Colleen Carroll Campbell’s August 14 editorial column, William Tortella seemed a bit misleading to me. What he quotes as ‘truth’ about St. Stanislaus Parish is as slanted as he accuses Ms. Campbell’s comments to be.
Churches were closed after…
If I wish to subscribe to the St. Louis Review, the Catholic Church organ for that faithful following, I would. But with the Post-Dispatch I get two for the price of one with Colleen Campbell’s repetitive orthodox Catholic public relations commentary.…
In her letter of August 19, 2008, Beth Cioffoletti wishes that Archbishop Burke “were as vocal on Catholic opposition to capital punishment as he has been on its opposition to abortion.” Ms. Cioffoletti further laments that “some of our five…
How many more front-page articles can you do about Archbishop Burke and the Catholic Church? This man says his final mass in St. Louis, and you choose it for your front page story, with a photograph. I’m sure when Archbishop…
Colleen Carroll Campbell’s column about Archbishop Raymond Burke was interesting, but when she referred to his proclamation that pro-choice Catholics should be denied the sacrament of Holy Communion, she conveniently forgot a few items of interest.
Archbishop Burke’s proclamation was not…
Colleen Carroll Campbell may think that Archbishop Burke is a wonderful example of a pastor, but in all my years as a Catholic, I have never experienced a more rigid, authoritarian, law-driven leader. The Pharisees knew all about laws, but…
I guess Catholics have a different concept of what constitutes pastoral care than my Protestant experience suggests. Surely pastoral care means much more than denying communion to people who disagree with church dogma about abortion.
James E Elliott
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In Colleen Carroll Campbell’s column on Aug. 14 she speaks in glowing terms of the moral high road Archbishop Burke walked as a true pastor. I did witness his moral high road but I see no pastor like behaviors in…
Once again the credibility of the institutional Roman Catholic Church is being brought into question with the accusations made in, “Board investigating abuse by priests didn’t get key info,” (08/09/09) and it is most distressing.
If any of the many serious…
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