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Letters To the Editor
Published: September 2, 2010
Letter ‘Mistaken’ On Pro-Life Focus
To the Editor:
The recent letter in the Aug. 19 Georgia Bulletin regarding the obligation of pro-life organizations to support Latino immigration, while well intentioned, is sadly mistaken. The pro-life arm of the Church struggles to save the unborn from the abortionist’s knife, attempting to protect the lives of all the unborn in America, including Latinos. In addition, we fight to protect the lives of the elderly, the disabled and the sick from euthanasia and assisted suicide. We come against the destruction of living human embryos for, thus far totally unsuccessful, scientific research and cloning. Finally, we wage war against the despicable black genocide practiced for eugenic reasons by Planned Parenthood.
Under our Constitution, children born in the United States are U.S. citizens. Catholics of good will can and do think illegal immigration is a legal question, and their morality concern comes down to the question of entering our country without a visa.
Cardinal Bernardin included nuclear weapons and capital punishment in the pro-life cause, which vitiated our efforts to recruit pro-life volunteers, because many Catholics support capital punishment and no one wanted to discard our nuclear protection. At the same time politicians could claim to be pro-life when they expressed opposition to nuclear war and capital punishment even though they were pro-choice.
Particularly troubling was the letter writer’s description of Pentecostals and Evangelicals as “anti-Catholic.” These Christian faiths are our strongest allies in the fight to end abortion and protect human life. To describe these fellow Christians as anti-Catholic is divisive and, in my opinion, fallacious.
For the first time since Roe v. Wade, the majority of the American people are pro-life and against abortion. We must focus on building on our success so that one day, we will triumph over the advocates for death.
Nicholas O’Connor
Atlanta
Former Student Recalls Father Bruce
To the Editor:
Thank you so much for the wonderful article on Father Bruce Wilkinson (The Georgia Bulletin, Aug. 19). I had the privilege in eighth grade at Sts. Peter and Paul School to have him as our religion teacher. For those preteen years, he was a wonderful inspiration and to this day, a major part in my Catholic formation. What a blessing he was to our parish and our school. We dedicated the yearbook to him and I still remember the Haiku poem one of my classmates wrote about Father Bruce:
Kind and always there
He is more than just a priest
He has been our friend.
God’s blessings to Father Bruce.
Beth Mappes
Monroe
