08.22.2008 5:26 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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.…

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08.20.2008 12:16 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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…

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08.15.2008 5:25 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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…

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08.15.2008 5:23 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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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08.14.2008 3:32 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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…

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06.04.2008 11:36 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
In her column, Ms. Campbell quotes that “female feticide is more like a holocaust.” This is due to certain cultures opting to abort after an ultrasound shows that a child is a girl. Prenatal technology is having another eugenical result…

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04.16.2008 4:25 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Two recent letters very pointedly criticized Colleen Carroll Campbell’s column on the marriage debate (”Repressive reality belies ‘freedom-to-marry’ rhetoric”, April 10). Both of those responses deserve some discussion.
Mr. Hammond suggests that a church’s refusal to recognize same-sex marriage is discriminatory…

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04.14.2008 5:40 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Once again Colleen Carroll Campbell is trying to dictate morals to those whom she sees as personally deficient. In doing so she has raised an interesting point that might be worth rethinking by society at large.
Why is the government…

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04.14.2008 5:37 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Post-Dispatch readers are lucky to have Colleen Campbell’s voice–always articulate, frequently wise, and always informed by her deep faith. Sometimes, however, that faith can mislead her. It happened last Thursday. Her assessment of the “freedom to marry” issue can be attacked…

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