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by Jim Holman.
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April 1999 LETTERS

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If Bart Brewer had 12 years in the monastery and didn't learn anymore than to pick on Catholics, I feel sorry for him. [See Catholicism Exposes Catholicism, March 1999.] Why doesn't he just tell the world what he believes and leave Catholicism out of it. Our church was there long before Bart and it will be there long after Bart and we have many theologians that are a lot smarter than Bart. So get with it, Bart.

Marie Erickson
San Diego

PLEASE, BISHOP BROM

So who is this Broderick character that writes the Confessions column? Modern-day Thomas à Kempis rather than Augustine, I'd say. Rigorous, thorough-going, no weepiness. Would that we could get one priest in San Diego who could give sermons like this. Now maybe Broderick watches TV--we don't know yet. But we do know that our priests watch TV, since their sermons use TV as efficient and material cause of what they offer to us on Sunday mornings. Please, Bishop Brom, help your priests get a more serious philosophical and theological grounding; help them help us. Take them away from USD--send them to the Angelicum, to St. Louis, to Dunwoodie. Anywhere but here.

Dorothy Lucas
Encinitas

WATCH OUT!

If websites who make wanted lists of abortion providers can be shut down, so can you, News Notes. By demonizing heroes like Dr. Priver and Dr. Santella, two of the only brave health-care providers left in San Diego who care about women, News Notes sets itself up for a similar legal action.

Anonymous

ABORTION CLINIC QUESTION

It has occurred to me that News Notes might help me.

Several months ago I began to suspect an abortion clinic was operating in our neighborhood. One of the employees confirmed this when I asked. It is located in the small mini mall between Beyer Blvd., 30th St. and south of Coronado Boulevard. At night it has a lit up neon sign that says "Athena." I would like to know who operates this above location and the doctor who does the killing, as well as the hours.

Wanda Crockett
San Diego

Editor: The Beyer Boulevard Athena clinic's weekend calls are referred to the BirthPlace in Hillcrest, where abortionists William Swartz and Karl Evelyn work. The receptionist on Beyer Blvd. said Evelyn is "in and out" of Athena, and Swartz is there "less often." Evelyn had quit doing abortions in 1991 but started again by 1995, when he joined Swartz at the BirthPlace. (In a 1992 lawsuit deposition, Evelyn admitted to failing the ob-gyn board certification exams both times he took them.) Swartz was notorious for later-term abortions at least by 1988 (he also was involved in the killing of Jody Rosen in 1986; Rosen was used by her mother as a poster child for euthanasia in the Oregon 1994 election).

Though the BirthPlace was "associated with" Sharp Health Care until about a year and a half ago, according the receptionist in Hillcrest, they have been bought by Athena Women's Health Care in Boston.

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