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by Jim Holman.
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LETTERS
December 2004

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Praise be to God for all of you who work so hard to protect and further the faith. May Saint Michael the archangel—defender protect you always! With unwavering faith and endless prayers,

Maureen Fitzsimmons-Vanden Heuvel
Milwaukee Archdiocese

RIGHTEOUS ANGER AT HER ALMA MATER

It is always with sadness and some degree of righteous anger that I read so often about USD and flaunting of Church teaching, if not outright heresy. When I graduated in 1965 it was a truly Catholic school (College for Women at the time). I received a wonderful education there, but the greatest gift was a continuation of my spiritual growth for which I am grateful to this day.

When Catholics, and others, are deprived of what our Faith has to offer, they are being cheated immensely. We are not to be like the world, but counter-cultural, now more than ever. The stakes are infinite. The dissenters and others have traded the transcendent for the worldly. We have forgotten that Pius X condemned the idea that the Church should conform to the world instead of the other way around. That was in 1907 in the encyclical on modernism. We should all reread it and the errors condemned; the latter are rampant today. "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, but lose his soul?"

Name withheld by request

SHE APPRECIATES THE CRUSADERS

Editor's note: the following letter was sent to John Giery of Catholic Crusaders after a Crusaders protest at University of San Diego.

Dear John Giery,

I don't think I got a chance to thank you for taking the time and energy to stand outside the USD campus to reach out to us parents. I am so thankful that you were there with your sign and your literature and your Rosary too! All of you were a sight for sore eyes. I had prayed to God for a sign as to what to do about my daughter going to school at USD and then ... there all of you were, holding signs! Thank you so much for all the information. I sent the Bishop a letter, quoting the Catechism of the Catholic Church. ( I didn't sound as eloquent as you in the above letter, but I think I got my point across!) I also sent President Mary Lyons an e-mail asking her what she plans to do about this situation, and telling her if she doesn't rectify it, we will take our daughter to another college. My daughter is adamant that she will not go there next year, so we are college shopping again!

Suzanne

CANCER VICTIM WAS AGAINST PROP 71

I'd like to comment on Proposition 71. I have leukemia. I strongly oppose the proposition. Six thousand million dollars for research restricted to a type of stem cells which has cured no one is incredible. What was needed was about a tenth of that and for umbilical cord and bone marrow stem cell research. Not just because the Church says so. The umbilical cord stem cells and other non-embryonic stem cells have already cured thousands. Add another tenth for autism. Then we might really have cured some sick people and made this effort financially worthwhile.

My heart goes out to the misled sufferers who trusted in this proposition, but it's a wrong medical approach. If any cures come from the embryonic type of stem cells they are not likely to be speedy cures. And it certainly puts us in the wrong place, i.e. on a moral slippery slope at best — by treating growing, human embryos like mouse embryos and by authorizing cell nuclear transfers which is a cloning process. In any case, the proposition was put forward at the wrong time financially. California cannot afford a $6 billion liability.

AG Schneider
San Diego

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