11.17.2009 6:17 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Once again I find myself embarrassed by the Catholic Church whose bishops contributed precious funds to the defeat of legalization of same sex marriage in Maine. Are we reading the same inclusive gospel of Jesus? Other than life itself, what…
11.16.2009 4:35 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
I have a problem with so many bishops sending so much money in an attempt to defeat a gay marriage amendment. Do these bishops have written documentation that same sex attraction is strictly a matter of choice and not in…
10.28.2009 6:16 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The pagan feast of Halloween is foreign to Christian tradition and has become a superstitious and empty way of imposing mindless triviality.
The day has its origin in the Celtic New Year which celebrated the return of the spirits of the…
10.27.2009 6:13 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Why can’t the Vatican just keep out of Protestants’ lives? If Episcopalians want to convert to Catholicism, I’m sure they can figure out how that works.
Europe is largely Catholic, yet very few Europeans attend church with any regularity. Maybe the…
10.08.2009 4:52 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
I’d like to suggest a way local governments could increase their revenues in these dark economic times. This suggestion would also do away with our country’s false notion of the separation of church and state.
Churches, synagogues and temples — in fact,…
09.21.2009 3:31 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
It appears that “tolerance” has a separate meaning to each situation these days. Now it means we are to be tolerant of others, no matter what their actions, even if they harm society as a whole, but that same “tolerance”…
09.18.2009 4:50 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
I suppose the uproar over the Culinaria crucifix was inevitable. It seems any expression of faith is bound to upset the sensibilities of someone else, and only the non-expression of faith or the expression of non-faith is tolerated. I would…
09.18.2009 4:47 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Is this the silly season, or has someone contaminated our water supply with a lunacy virus?
Did anyone at the Culinaria tell Lori Weinstock that she was not welcome, or that she could not spend her money there, or that she…
09.18.2009 4:40 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Are we so insecure about our beliefs these days that we profess outrage and threaten boycott because an employee chooses to display a personal symbol of faith at his workplace? Our First Amendment rights afford us the luxury of expressing…