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BISHOP BRENNAN'S OPEN LETTER

Events in our lives tend to take on a life of their own and they can certainly outpace our responses too. Lord knows we have been through a lot as a nation, as a people of faith, as a Church and, simply, as humans who are hurting when others are hurting, like those moms and dads in Uvalde, Texas. So, my responses to other events in our lives have been a bit tardy, to say the least.

Brothers and sisters, I have been wanting to write in support of Archbishop Cordileone for several weeks now. He has taken a lot of heat, in and out of the Church, for standing up for what's right. Of course, I am referring to his recent statement prohibiting Nancy Pelosi, the current Speaker of the House in Congress, from receiving Communion, the Holy Eucharist, in the Archdiocese of San Franciso.

Diocese of Fresno

Most Rev. Joseph V. Brennan, D.D.

Those who deny the truth should not imagine their actions immune to judgment

By the time his soul was returned to God ten years ago last month, Christopher Hitchens, who did not of course believe in God — or the soul — had managed to scarify a fair number of people with his slashing attacks on faith and religion. Some quite famous people, in fact.

For instance, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, whom he regarded as a pious fraud; indeed, going so far as to write an entire book, dripping with disdain, for his subject. Or the late Pope St. John Paul II, whom Hitchens regarded as positively senile...

National Catholic Register
Regis Martin