Letters

Anti-Catholicism

Paula Gartland

Contents - Jul 2006 - Buy a copy now Editorial: Strong Church leadership: new approach - Michael Gilchrist Salesian Missions: Church protects the victims of Timor violence - Br Michael Lynch News: The Church Around the World Evangelisation: Strong leadership: US bishop Robert Finn shows how - AD2000 Report New Vatican document emphasises centrality of marriage and family - AD2000 Report US Archbishop: how to reform the Liturgy Internet pornography: raising the alarm - Fr Stephen J. Rossetti AD2000 website Re-mythologising: Narnia - faith and fiction: The parallel world of C.S.Lewis - Msgr Peter J. Elliott Vatican concern at Islamic persecution of Christians - Zenit News Agency Letters: The Da Vinci Code - Denis Dominguez Letters: Pope Pius XII - Br Con Moloney CFC Letters: Anti-Catholicism - Paula Gartland Letters: Abortion and the Annunciation - Greg Dunne Letters: Contraception - Richard Congram Letters: Degrees of Homosexuality - Vincent Bemowski Letters: Hymn books wanted - A. van Tilburg Books: Hell and Other Destinations, by Piers Paul Read - Francis Phillips (reviewer) Books: Theology of the Body for Beginners, by Christopher West - Jacinta Cummins (reviewer) Books: Good News About Sex and Marriage, by Christopher West - Jacinta Cummins (reviewer) Books: Stimulating reading from Freedom Publishing Reflection: US bishop: making saints should be the goal of Catholic schools - Bishop Robert Finn

As Kevin Donnelly points out (June AD2000) in his article on textbooks and anti-Catholicism, the blatant anti-Catholicism shown by the intelligensia (and apparatchiki) of our nation is disturbing, but I feel Donnelly goes too far in his criticism of black armband history.

One should beware of equating facile feminist and environmentalist rhetoric with valid left-wing positions.

Because one is traditional in religion does not mean one should be right-wing in politics. We have every reason to decry the invasion of this country and the alienation of its people, black and white, from the soil that is theirs by natural law. Nor should we celebrate a nationhood build on the slaughter of the unborn, the dissolution of the family and a huge and artificial unemployment. The bishops of Australia certainly seem to think so.

PAULA GARTLAND
Albany, WA

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 19 No 6 (July 2006), p. 15