Placing the Blame Your editorial “Adrift in the Gulf” (6/21) is by far the best commentary I’ve read on the oil spill. I lived on the Texas coast for 20 years, working as a volunteer and professional with several coastal conservation organizations. I have lost count of how many acr

Unfortunate Misunderstanding Please allow me to respond to two letters that appeared in your May 31 issue concerning the liturgical use of the capa magna at the solemn pontifical Mass celebrated by Bishop Slattery in Washington, D.C. Bishop Slattery has received close to 2,000 letters and e-mail mes

Please Package and Post Please package the two editorials (“Pilgrim People, Part I” and “Pilgrim People, Part II,” 5/10 and 5/17) and circulate them everywhere. We who work for reform in the church have been working for these structural changes for almost 30 years. I am so pl

W.W.J.D. Thank you for the small photo in News Briefs (5/10). The image of Bishop Edward J. Slattery in his crimson robe with yards of train borne by some flunky speaks volumes about how far the Catholic Church has strayed from being the creation of Jesus. Evangelicals asked a question decades ago:

Loving Fidelity I have long insisted that authentic reform in the church must proceed through passionate love for the church: Ecclesia semper amanda et reformanda. Your recent editorials “Pilgrim People” (5/10 and 5/17) are bracing and compelling because they join, in a distinctive way,

Compelling and Principled I was gratified to see the editors of America acknowledge (“How Compelling?” 4/12) that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops opposed the final health care reform bill for a range of reasons, including the law’s lack of “protection of the conscien