Mr. Allen:
I think you have a nice website and provide a good service. I would like to say, however, that I find your quizzes to be insulting. If you could kick up the IQ a little, I'd find their inclusion on your homepage a positive instead of a negative.
Thanks,
Len
Thanks for your feedback, Len. You should know that in the absence of a kid’s module with games and so forth, some of our quiz questions are designed to appeal to young people. Others are almost purely for comic relief. But we will indeed try to ensure that more higher-end questions appear in that module.
In JMJ,
Tom Allen
Editor, CE
Firefighters Plead for Fidelity to Vocations
Hooray for Mark Shea!
I just wanted to say thanks to Mark for his charitable and faithful response to Marianne’s criticisms of George Weigel's interview, “A Crisis of Fidelity:” George Weigel on Renewing the U.S. Catholic Church.
I lead a Catholic Firefighters Fellowship group in the Puget Sound region of Washington. We have discussed the “scandals” at length in some of our meetings. The problem as we see it was expressed very well by Mr. Weigel. It is a problem of FIDELITY to your VOCATION, whether that vocation is lay Catholic, Priest, Religious, or (most disturbing and harmful) Bishop. Being loyal to the Holy Father and the Traditions of the Church is the surest way to rise out of this latest scandal of the Church's children.
Steve Davison
Did Mary Die, or Didn’t She?
Dear Catholic Exchange:
Your Today feature entitled, Mary's House — Walking in the Footsteps of St. John clearly stated that Mary died at Ephesus and then was assumed into heaven. However, your Truth Tracts the very next day addressed the Catholic belief that Mary did not die, but was assumed into heaven. There’s an obvious conflict here that I would like resolved.
A.F. Hebert
Dear Mr. Hebert,
Yesterday mid-morning, we actually changed the inaccurate reference to Mary's death in an early paragraph in the Lynch story to read, “John wrote his Gospel and his letters in Ephesus and he often walked through the ancient city and up the mountain to Mary's House where she lived for the last nine years of her life and where, at the end of her earthly existence, she was assumed into heaven.”
I apologize for not catching the error sooner.
In JMJ,
Tom Allen
Editor, CE
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