From Father Bob Pelton.

In its relatively few years of existence Catholic Insight has become a beacon of Catholic truth, small perhaps but bright, in the mostly gloomy atmosphere of Canadian journalism. One need not agree with every article or nuance, but month after month you present an intelligent, mature, balanced expression of Catholic thinking on the challenges of restoring all things in Christ in a culture increasingly wedded to death.

Therefore I was profoundly dismayed to find in the March number an article, "The American Election: Another Perspective," to which none of the adjectives in the preceding sentence could in even the most charitable interpretation be applied. It was especially baffling to read the editorial reader's comments on page 11, which succinctly if not exhaustively listed some of the most serious objections to the article, but left me, and I would think many others, trying to understand how such a collection of Michael-Moore-like false accusations and rash judgments could find its way into the pages of Catholic Insight.

Certainly the areas that Mr. Ahern tries to explore--how to vote as faithful Catholics, how to understand the war against terrorism especially in regard to the war in Iraq, how to help Catholics understand Evangelicals, and how to understand the role of faith in the life of President Bush--are worthy of serious reflection. Reflection, however, that fails even to consider objections to one's point of view much less to show a real understanding of these objections, is little more than a rant.

President Bush deserves much better than this and so do the readers of Catholic Insight.

Combermere, ON