Uncharitable Catholics.I was both surprised and distressed to learn the following in Kevin D. Williamson's "Lost Generation" (August 4): "Catholic Charities in Massachusetts suspended sus·pend v. sus·pend·ed, sus·pend·ing, sus·pends v.tr. 1. To bar for a period from a privilege, office, or position, usually as a punishment: suspend a student from school. their adoption activities when the state attempted to force them to abandon their moral objections to facilitating adoption by homosexual homosexual /ho·mo·sex·u·al/ (-sek´shoo-al) 1. pertaining to, characteristic of, or directed toward the same sex. 2. one who is sexually attracted to persons of the same sex. couples, leaving the Bay State's children bereft of an important ally in their search for families." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The sentence is phrased in such a way as to blame the government, but Catholic Charities deserves opprobrium OPPROBRIUM, civil law. Ignominy; shame; infamy. (q.v.) as well. A charity concerned with helping children should not abandon this mission for political reasons. Furthermore, it makes no sense to reject the services that homosexuals may be willing and able to provide. George Jochnowitz New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , N.Y. KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON REPLIES: A decent society makes room for the conscience, especially the conscience of an organization that does as much good for the world as Catholic Charities USA does. The group's adoption work is of a piece with the church's teaching on sexuality--a seamless garment The phrase "seamless garment" refers to the seamless robe of Jesus, which the Gospel of John describes Jesus as having worn to his crucifixion. In 1971, Roman Catholic pacifist Eileen Egan used St. John the Apostle's phrase to describe a holistic reverence for life. . |
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