To CE Editors:

I am a long-time Catholic, and it saddens me to see Catholic organizations embracing a party that stands for everything traditional Catholics do not, such as bigotry, oppression of the poor and disabled, a war on human rights,…

Deear CE, 

March for Life is a sign that the nation is poised for change.

I was born on the eastside of Detroit, Michigan at a time when abortion was illegal, life was protected, kids felt safe and neighborhood families cared for…

Dear Mrs. Kochan,

Thank you for your message. I am so glad that the news from Rome was of interest to you. Below is my translation of an article which appeared yesterday in the paper. I send it along so that…

Dear Mrs. Kochan, 

This small news item appeared yesterday on Catholic Exchange:

"'Pope Cancels Trip in Rome Over Security' –Source: Telegraph"

I don't know what further coverage it was given in America but it caused an explosive situation here in Italy like nothing…

Dear Editors of Catholic Exchange and Mr. Tsakanikas:

Your Dec. 8th Catholic Exchange article was really right on target from a European standpoint and I was so delighted and so surprised to hear things from an American Catholic as I have heard…

I'm wondering why, given your name of "CATHOLIC Exchange," you continually have articles — for us Catholics, no less — written by Protestants?

Example: today's "Does Marriage Have a Future?" by Terry Mattingly. He is listed on the bottom of his…

Dear Catholic Exchange,

I am a recent graduate of Belmont Abbey College, and currently a resident of Charleston, SC. I am writing to thank Catholic Exchange for posting the article "‘Investing in Peace' with Cluster Bombs" by Fr. Richard Vandewater.

It is…

[Editor's note: This Viewer's Letter is in response to the Words of Encouragement article entitled "Eternal Life!"]

Dear Catholic Exchange,

"In Hell, people have lost the use of the intellect as much as all the other gifts God gave them" ("Eternal Life!", Words…

Dear Mark,

Christ is risen!

I have sometimes disagreed with you in the past but I must say you are 100% bang on with your observations on the RCIA in the Catholic Exchange. I completely agree with your four points and would…

Dear Mark,

I just listened to the Feb 12 edition of your Catholic Exchange podcast. I loved it. Lincoln's celebration of the dignity of life is an inherently Christian, inherently Catholic idea, whether he meant it that way or not. Good…

[Editor's note: The following letter is a response to Spiritual Warfare.]

Brother Shea,

I have been waiting for a Catholic of the mindless, Pope-puppet type of man to lead our Great Church into the mindless murder of innocent orphans cared for…

Dear Catholic Exchange,

One very obvious passage that could have been included in your article "Is Using Foul Language a Sin?" is Colossians 3:8: "But now you must put them all away: anger, fury, malice, slander, and obscene language out of…

[Editor's note: Thank you to all the viewer's who emailed Mark Shea about his article, "I Can't Imagine a Dumber Song." Mark says, "I'm surprised at the chord (pun intended) this article struck. Glad you enjoyed it!]

Dear Mark,

Thank you for…

Dear Catholic Exchange:

I am a little surprised that CE put an article like Russell Shaw's, "Communication in a Powder-Keg World" on your forum.

I wish Russell Shaw had read Fr. Tom Euteneuer's article, "Adamant in Our Support of the Pope." Does…

[Editor’s Note: The following letter is in response to Eric Scheske’s “Appetites Run Amok.”]

Dear Catholic Exchange:

CatholicExchange.com is running more and more sexually explicit/alluring articles. What's going on?

Maybe you think you're hip, but that would be a male thing. Families don't…

[Editor’s Note: the following letters are in response to Mark Shea’s article, Spiritual Warfare.]

Well said, Mr. Shea.

Thank you for saying so well what is truth. For many who remain tied to a worldly perspective, it is simply all about being…

[Editor’s Note: the following letters are in response to Mark Shea’s article, Unity, Liberty, Charity.]

Dear Mr. Shea,

Yes, but the liturgical abuses can be so egregious! I have often wrestled with what to do (usually nothing whatsoever). I go to the…

[Editor’s Note: The following letter is in response to Mark Shea’s article, The Anagogical Sense of Scripture.]

Dear Catholic Exchange:

I keep reading that the allegorical sense of Scripture is to show Jesus hidden in the Old Testament, but isn't that also…

Dear Catholic Exchange:

I would like you to extend to Monsignor Dennis Clarke my heartfelt thank you for his homilies. I read them every working morning and they provide me with a great start to the day. May the Lord protect…

It is hard to believe that it has been 5 years since the tragic events of 9/11. My daughter was not even born and now she starts Preschool. I tend to pick out little obscure things in life, thus my…

Dear Catholic Exchange,

Please, please convey my undying gratitude to Dr. Moynihan for his article, Reaping the Whirlwind. In all the (heated) rhetoric over the last week, this is the most sane treatment of the Holy Father's speech I've seen. It…

Dear Catholic Exchange,

Hey, I've answered every quiz question on your website right forever. I must be the smartest Catholic alive!

Don't I get a prize…or something?

Dan Murnane

P.S. — Thanks for all you do!

Dear Catholic Exchange:

I am writing to request all Catholic Exchange viewers to join the state of South Dakota as we prepare for the upcoming election (November 7). Specifically, we will be voting whether or not to affirm HB 1215 (Referred…

[Editor’s Note: The following letter is in response to the article “A Parent’s Calling.”]

Dear Catholic Exchange:

I have thoroughly enjoyed your web site for several years now and up until now, have never found an article to be upsetting or outright…

Dear Catholic Exchange,

I just read your senior editor’s response to a reader from Omaha concerning minimum wage debate. I can't believe you apparently separate economic justice from faith and morals.

Ann E. O'Mara

Dear Ms. O'Mara,

Thank you for writing. I am glad that…

[Editor’s Note: The following letter is in response to the Faith Question article, “Is the Brown Scapular a Violation of Scripture?”]

Dear Catholic Exchange:

I enjoyed Pete Brown’s comments on the question regarding the use of the brown scapular. In one of…

Dear Catholic Exchange:

James Maldanado-Berry’s recent article on the minimum wage, “Economic Justice and the Minimum Wage,” is clearly opposed to the bishops’ position regarding the minimum wage. It might be the conservative economic position, but it is hardly the Catholic…

Dear Editors:

I just read the article Sacramental Grace Is the Difference by Theresa A. Thomas. I thought the article was well done. The section titled: “Follow the Church’s Teachings and Reject Artificial Birth Control,” prompted me to write a clarification.…

[This letter is in response to the Chuck Colson's article “The Moussaoui Verdict: Freud Is Alive and Well.”]

Dear Editors,

I found the Chuck Colson article today, “The Moussaoui Verdict: Freud Is Alive and Well”, to be highly objectionable and offensive to…

[The following two viewer letters are in regard to Fr. William Saunders's “He Descended into Hell” and Claire M. O’Neill's “The Apostles' Creed in Public and Private Worship.”]

Dear Catholic Exchange,

Please convey my thanks to Claire O’Neill for her definitive article…

[Editor’s Note: The following letters are in response to Backing Down at Notre Dame, by James K. Fitzpatrick.]

Dear Catholic Exchange,

I just wanted to comment on the article about Father Jenkins permitting the Vagina Monolgues to be performed at Notre Dame.

I feel…

Editors Note: The following letters offer viewers' suggestions for responding to the Da Vinci Code. See also, “Othercott”: A New Way to Speak Your Mind and The Deadly Propaganda of Da Vinci.

Dear Catholic Exchange:

I am writing regarding the Da Vinci Code.…

Dear Catholic Exchange:

How come I see news about fourteen days old still popping up on the Catholic Exchange, but an important item, that last week there was a bus accident in Timor in which 30 to 40 Kononian nuns were…

Editor’s Note: The following letters are in response to Mark Shea’s article, “The Day the Free Press Committed Suicide.”

Dear Mark,

I am saving [this article] — making copies of it and handing it out at work and sending it to everyone…

Dear Catholic Exchange:

Thanks for George Weigel’s article on “The Alito Apologies.” I wish it had a much wider circulation. Unfortunately, those who need to read it are the ones who won't see it (and wouldn't understand it if they did!).

A phrase…

Dear Catholic Exchange:

I know you've covered this topic before, but I wondered if you could help me with it again. My husband just became Catholic on All Saint's Day this year, praise God. He became involved in the local Mason…

Dear Catholic Exchange,

Mary Kochan in her article “Family Trumps All in Immigration Reform” somehow imagines that the majority of illegal immigrants are fathers. (By the way, misidentifying those who are in this country illegally as “immigrants,” to be politically correct,…

Dear Editor,

Erik Rush in his article “You Always Hurt…,” about teachers seducing teenagers under their power, fails to inform readers through the light of Catholic faith and reason about the issue.

Rush describes the perceptions he had of his community's…

Dear Catholic Exchange:

Can you tell me if this is now or ever was the “norm”?

At Catholic Funerals the casket is placed at the foot of the altar and draped in a pall. Which way is the coffin “headed”? Is it…

[Editor’s Note: The following dialogue is in response to the article, “Gay? Fine by Notre Dame?” by James K. Fitzpatrick.]

Dear Editors:

I am a regular recipient of Catholic Exchange emails AND have many friends who forward me the latest news about…

Dear Catholic Exchange:

My husband heads up the Extraordinary Ministers at our parish, and he is a stickler for what's correct according to the Church's teachings. Recently, one of the EMs has been pushing for the right for all EMs to…

Editor's note: The following letters are in response to “Letting Our Loves Meet: Ecumenism for Us Plain Old Laypeople.”

Mark,

I read your article, “Letting Our Loves Meet: Ecumenism for Us Plain Old Laypeople“, and while I agree with much of what…

Dear Mark,

Your article titled “Humility” truly hit the mark. Sometimes it is discouraging just getting up in the morning, but this article in particular is so very encouraging.

Please keep the wonderful articles coming. You have no idea how inspiring…

[Editor’s Note: This letter is in response to Mark Shea’s article Cursed Are the Peacemakers.]

Dear Mark,

Perhaps the good Cardinal doesn't realize that his brief, but very public proclamation, much like the well publicized John Paul II Koran kiss, truly disturbs…