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LETTERS
OCTOBER 1998
DEROGATORY AND SARCASTIC
Please cancel my subscription. I never requested it and do not want your paper.
On your masthead you say, "...we will highlight what is positive in the Church..." I have yet to see a truly positive article in your paper. You send your spies around to churches and their reports are always derogatory, usually sarcastic. You criticize everyone who disagrees with your pre-Vatican view of the church. In these times of duress for the church, you are certainly not a light shining in the darkness.
Your San Francisco sister paper [the Faith] is just as negative, likewise cancelled. If you truly wish "...to follow the high call of [your] Catholic and orthodox faith," (you masthead again) try to realize that unity does not mean uniformity.
Rev. Richard B. McCafferty, S.J.
Administrator, the Community of St. Charles Borromeo
Livermore
CLEAN UP YOUR ACT
In the July/August 1998 Los Angeles Mission, page 5, I noticed an anatomical drawing of Cardinal Mahony's rectal and genital areas. [See "News," July/August 1998. Note that the illustration is not available in this on-line edition.] Yours was the only paper in which I saw such drawings. I presume this is the area where your minds are.
I sincerely question your common sense on many topics. Anyway, as a last resort you can always substitute your paper for the regular toilet tissue. Why don't you clean up your act?
Walt Reilly
Van Nuys
Editor's note: The picture to which Mr. Reilly refers was not intended to be a picture of Cardinal Mahony, but merely a diagram to show readers where the prostate is located. Its intent was instructional, not prurient.
IMPERTINENT QUESTION
This is a response to your news article, "True to the goal of having the homosexual ministry become active," in the July/August 1998 Mission regarding Father Liuzzi's questions after the end of a homily he gave on March 7 and 8, 1998, at St. Paul's church in Westwood.
Father, with all due respect, what do you mean by the questions and statement, "If you are single, widowed or divorced, how well do you follow the church's teaching? Your example is a message to gay and lesbian Catholics?" The question may remotely be pertinent if the Church had parades and ministries that exalted adulterers and fornicators of heterosexual persuasion. However, is that not what the secular world does?
Sharon Ann Fonger
Monterey Park
THEIR WORDS ARE ELUCIDATING
One of the common events during exorcisms is the wailing and exclamations of devils whose stranglehold on the victim is threatened. It comes as no surprise that when the Mission publishes an article which sheds light on a big lie, the demons so exposed to truth will proceed to wail and moan. For us who may observe at a safe distance, their choice of words can be quite elucidating to our understanding of the dark evil which may be in their hearts.
Such is my impression of the lashing rejoinder by Eric Stoltz in the September 1998 Mission [see Letters section] in which he alleges vague injustices against him in the Mission article. The truth hurts when it exposes weakness and threatens to upset a grave deception.
Yes, Mr. Stoltz, God loves you. He loves all the immortal souls of His creation, including those who reject His Truth.
Brian T.
Granada Hills
A CATHOLIC ANTI-VIRUS
If the Catholic Church were a computer with a virus, you would run the best antivirus program you could lay your hands on. The Mission is that antivirus program. I look forward each month to its arrival in our Catholic book store. The only people listening are those of us who know that something is wrong with the system in the U.S. Many Catholics that I encounter in the store have left the Church because of the heterodoxy being introduced by these leftist bishops. They feel that they didn't leave the Church, but that the Church left them. I encourage them to attend Mass in parishes where I know orthodoxy of the Church is being promoted and preached. They thank me and then I see them at Mass again, it's a good feeling to be able to help.
Please write more on the lay organizations that promote true orthodoxy and teaching of the Catholic faith. Where to contact them etc. I think that it's safe to say that we need to reach out to over 50% of the orthodox Catholics who have left the church in disgust. These are the ones who appreciated the Latin Mass, statues, devotions to our Lady, altar rails, Communion on the tongue, the organ, the great music of the Church including Gregorian chant. Not bongo drums, jazzy folk music, communion in the hand, and strange heterodox teaching by wayward clergy. The infiltration of the church in America began almost immediately after Vatican II.
If one would take the time to read its documents, he would readily find out that much that is attributed to Vatican II are bald and in your face lies. The conference of U.S. Catholic bishops has become the U.N. in our church. The path that most are following is diametrically opposed to the Holy Father and His teaching as Vicar of Christ on earth.
I support what you are doing, keep it up!
Ron Severin
(received by e-mail)