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Letter
to the editor
Catholics
respond to article on Pope's book
Just
a heads up for the editor of your newspaper:
I have filed a formal complaint with the
Catholic League for Religious and Civil
Rights, a watchdog group based in New York
City that monitors public media which is
anti-Catholic in content, citing one of
your anti-Catholic writers.
The
article called "Pope's book makes absurd
claims" by Gerry Wachovsky is a vicious,
virulent anti-Catholic screed which is thinly
disguised as a book review. The writer relies
on little factual and/or historical evidence,
and even less of an understanding of moral
philosophy and the Catholic faith upon which
it is based. In short, his "article"
is an aggressive anti-Catholic diatribe,
not a book review. The writer word-processes
with all the grace, intelligence and skill
of an adolescent reacting to an image he
sees on his television screen. His flagrant
attacks on the Pope, on Catholicism and
his overwhelming disrespect have been related
in full to the Catholic League. Why does
the writer feel it is okay to malign an
entire faith for having the moral courage
to raise important questions?
It
is my hope that Mr. Wachovsky spend more
time perhaps in his history class or maybe,
heaven-forbid, a theology or philosophy
class, before sitting down at his computer
and offending the adherents of a faith rooted
more deeply in philosophy and in world history
than he could possibly imagine.
—
William Owens
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