Letters to the Editor

Readers Speak Out: October 6, 2019

October 3, 2019

Time to reboot Church leaders cannot be blamed for optimistically adopting Vatican II changes, which most clergy and laity supported. However, 55 years on, it must be concluded that those good-faith liberalizing strategies have not worked.

Readers Speak Out: September 29, 2019

September 26, 2019

Vote for integrity Canadians are intelligent people. They are highly educated.

Readers Speak Out: September 22, 2019

September 19, 2019

Dignified death Re: Faith shouldn’t have to bend to survive (Aug. 11-18): Excellent article by Charles Lewis. But I wonder what euthanasia has to do with palliative care.

Readers Speak Out: September 15, 2019

September 12, 2019

Self-imposed silence Re: Archdiocese gears up for federal election (Sept. 1): The Church and the large Catholic community of Toronto has much to offer Canadians, especially, as the article suggests, by using the wisdom of Catholic social teaching in formulating government policies.

Readers Speak Out: September 8, 2019

September 5, 2019

Repentance The Aug. 25 photograph of the return of the cross to Nagasaki Cathedral should be the first act of setting right the wrong of the bombing of Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945.

Readers Speak Out: September 1, 2019

August 29, 2019

Anti-Christian bias Re: “Report keeps Jesuit off monument pedestal” (Aug. 11-18): Parks Canada, members of two Indigenous groups and others say that the positioning of figures on the Champlain monument in Orillia is “racist.” They’ve now decided to make changes to it including removing a Jesuit figure as an “example of reconciliation.”

Readers Speak Out: August 25, 2019

August 22, 2019

Plan B needed In late June a prominent parishioner and Knight of Columbus died. An Honour Guard was requested by the family at the funeral. About 20 fourth-degree Knights attended in regalia — 19 in old regalia, one in new regalia.

Readers Speak Out: August 11, 2019

August 8, 2019

Curious achievement Re: PM defends religious freedom (July 14-21): This is a curious achievement for a prime minister who reduced the status of the Office of Religious Freedom from an ambassadorship with a significant budget to a bureau within the Global Affairs Department.

Readers Speak Out: July 28, 2019

July 25, 2019

Un-Canadian uniform In May our Knights of Columbus assembly held its last meeting of the 2018-19 Columbian year. Among the discussions, the most important one concerned the new Fourth Degree regalia.

Readers Speak Out: July 14, 2019

July 12, 2019

Uniformly upset I am the wife and daughter of proud members of the Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus. It has been announced that the uniform is to change. The new uniform consists of pants, jacket and a beret.