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October 1998 LETTERS

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I want to offer my thanks to Father Richard L. Perozich for writing an excellent letter in response to your report on Father Robert White [see "Call News Notes to Repentance" (September 1998)]. Father Perozich stated what I have often thought about News Notes but would never have been able to say so well.

I have been reading News Notes for about six years. For most of that time, I have had to struggle to understand what the point was of many of your articles and what the ultimate aim of News Notes is. I'm still not sure that I understand it. The only consistency I find in your reporting is that you seem to enjoy tearing down rather than building up the Body of Christ.

Most of your articles are sobering, if not downright depressing, but it has always been in the back of my mind that the writing has been rather one-sided. And I haven't been able to help noticing that the News Notes staff seem to take an uncharitable enjoyment in dishing dirt on anyone they can.

My husband and I just listened to a tape by Scott Hahn in which he said that we have to pray for our priests, not tear them down and spread gossip about them. I would hope that you at News Notes would pray to the Holy Spirit for an increase in charity and right judgment in your reporting.

-- Celine McCoy
San Diego


LOVE THE SIN BUT HATE THE SINNER

With the usual hypocrisy one has come to expect from the self-professed "Catholic" University of San Diego, on Monday, August 31 they had a special Mass at the Immaculata welcoming new students and their families. The church was filled with emotional parents and students, especially when the parents gave a special blessing to their children as they left them, in most cases for the first time, entrusting them into the care of a Catholic school that would act in loco parentis. Two days later that trust was betrayed when at the yearly get-acquainted-with-campus-organizations street fair their children were confronted with two tables side by side: the pro-life student organization and the gay and lesbian student organization.

This type of diversity may now seem like old hat because we have come to accept the confusion of a double standard, and the consequent lessening of moral standards, as a way of life (or in fact as a way to eternal death). The "diversity" the University has adopted for a few 30 pieces of silver is only a Tower of Babel. The Holy Spirit is the source of communion, not an abortion-provider, homosexual-lifestyle promoter like the Irvine Foundation, which is the financial engine that drives the push for diversity and so drives the University itself. When they compromised the Faith, they forgot the Truth and they can't cover it up with empty words or sentiments. "No man can serve two masters."

This is truly a time of great apostasy, a lack of faith, a lack of belief in or acceptance of right and wrong. What ever happened to "hate the sin but love the sinner"? The University has adopted the world's way of loving the sin but hating the sinner. How? Fostering sodomy certainly shows no charity for the individual. If we accept such moral relativism for others, we accept it for ourselves. If we accept it for ourselves, we place ourselves above God's law and we will be divorced and aborted from him forever.

Poor parents of the students of USD. Poor students. Poor all of us if we do not weep for ourselves and our children.

--Anonymous
Alcala Park, San Diego


WHAT PROSTITUTION!

So much has been written in your paper about the lack or perversion of Catholicity at USD. It must be understood that the Catholic Church does not own USD and therefore has lost any real power there. The only property on campus that it does own is the Immaculata church. It is now a parish church. It was originally designed to be part of the campus until the campus slowly moved away from it, leaving it alone on the hill. It has become a symbol of something that no longer exists. Its picture is used as window-dressing in most USD promotional material, giving the impression that the Catholic Church is alive and well and taken very seriously on campus.

What prostitution! Actually, the University has been privately owned for some time now by the people who have been exposed to the heresy of Modernism taught at and spread by the University for at least 30 years. So there is no need to worry about its theological/religious studies department conforming to the Pope's recent and insistent directives to teach the full truth of the Catholic religion or else cease being called Catholic. Nor is there need to worry about Bishop Brom's implementing the Pope's recent directive to all bishops to see that Catholic universities and theologians conform.

USD can build all the Marxist, U.N., world government-type peace centers it wants, for in its blindness it has lost sight of where true peace comes from. The University is not a Catholic university and it can do what it darn well pleases.

-- Anna Marie Finnegan
Del Mar


WE SUGGEST YOU CHECK THE TV LISTINGS IN YOUR LOCAL PAPER

To print the full page of Catholic TV programs seen and heard on EWTN (page 16), and not even give a hint of the local channels that they can be seen and heard on in our area, is the height of poor judgment.

-- Bill Bauner
San Diego

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