Dear Catholic Exchange:
I can’t begin to thank you enough for publishing the article by Stephen Baskerville. Not only have you done the Church and marriages a tremendous favor, but also our nation.
Please continue to cover Mr. Baskerville’s writings and those of others who are PRO-MARRIAGE and PRO-FAMILY. We need all the publicity we can get to expose the injustices done to marriages and families by the unjust judicial system, as well as to publicize the sweeping changes in divorce laws that must come in order for Constitutional rights to be honored in divorce courts.
Thanks,
Billy Miller
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Dear Catholic Exchange,
This parishioner at St. Leo’s in Fairfax, VA, applauds Stephen Baskerville’s piece on the divorce industry. Much of what he describes happened in the termination of my marriage.
I pray Catholic Exchange prints more on this invidious industry.
Sincerely,
Paul Brundage
Fairfax, VA
Dear Catholic Exchange:
I am very concerned. Yesterday, March 3rd, my daughter was shown a film on the proper use of condoms. I can see this being taught in public schools, but hers is a Catholic school. Please advise as to what I might do about this. Contact with the school was made to no avail.
Thanks,
Mr. Kramer
Dear Mr. Kramer,
Sorry to hear about this. I’d suggest that you visit the school, speak directly with the principal, demand an explanation and register your displeasure. Tell the principal that such “education” is a violation of your rights as a parent, a violation of your child’s innocence and a violation of Church teaching on human sexuality. Demand that the “condom awareness” program be discontinued at once and that the children who were shown the film be gathered together for a follow-up talk on abstinence and authentic Church teaching on human sexuality.
Tell the principal that you are prepared to share this story with your bishop and with the national Catholic media if your concerns are not taken seriously. I will support you on this with editorial coverage and press announcements to other Catholic news organizations if the principal’s response is not satisfactory.
Yours in Christ,
Tom Allen
Editor & President
Catholic Exchange
The Horrors of Divorce
Dear Catholic Exchange:
Thank you for publishing Why No One is Married, by Ed Truncelitto. Finally someone is telling it like it is. I fought with all my heart to put a stop to my divorce, but the judge told me I didn’t have a choice. How wrong he was. Mine was not a consenting divorce between two people, but a divorce that hinged upon what one party wanted. I fought like a wild man for six months. I even spent extra money to try and keep it from happening. I knew what it would do to my kids, all four of them. There are just no words to thank you for putting this out to the public.
I am a disabled veteran who fought for this country, and when I came back, I was dragged through divorce court because I couldn’t come to grips with the horror I encountered during the Six Day War back in 1967. Yes, I am an American who was involved in the war back then. I was aboard the USS Liberty when it was deliberately attacked by the Israeli defense force. We were left to die out there, all 294 of us. If you want to know the story behind this, it is spelled out in all truth at www.ussliberty.org. I hope you can see how many of us have been hurt by the sadistic “No Fault Divorce Law.”
Ronald G. Kukal
Sheridan, Wy
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Mary and the Wedding Feast
Dear CE:
Please allow me to add my two cents worth about your recent feature, Would You Call Your Mama “Woman”?
I am a recent convert to the Catholic Church. Regarding the wedding at Cana, I remember as an evangelical when I learned the argument: “If Mary is so important to Salvation, then why did Jesus scold her and put her in her place at the wedding?”
A Catholic answer to that evangelical argument (that the author didn’t include) goes like this:
1) In order for evangelical Protestants to further their argument that Mary is superfluous to Salvation, they must find their own “proof texts” to that end. So they point to the wedding at Cana, where Jesus seems to rebuke Mary with the “woman” discourse.
2) However, the fourth commandment says, “Honor thy father and thy mother.”
3) Jesus said in Matthew 5:18-19 “Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place. Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven.”
4) Jesus is without sin. If Jesus had intended to rebuke his mama, He would have sinned. He was without sin, even the least of sins. Otherwise, He would be “least in heaven” right now.
What I have come to understand these past five years as a Catholic is that for evangelicals to be right, the words of Jesus must be wrong. And, I don’t want to go there (already been there).
Pax Christi,
Paul Erickson
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