Category: Opinion

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Fr. Don Lange

Appreciated article on importance of farm safety

To the editor:

Jim Massey’s article entitled “Take Extra Safety Precautions During Harvest” (Catholic Herald, September 23, 2010) was timely. I have never lived on a farm, and I don’t claim to be a farmer. However, the article touched me because I grew up in a rural area.

Farm children and adults were my friends, classmates, and neighbors. I vividly recall persons whom our family knew who were in farm accidents. My grandpa had missing fingers from a farm accident. My mother often described the pain he suffered during damp weather.

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Mary C. Uhler, editor

Let’s form our own ‘humane society’ to protect babies

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When we think of respecting all human life, we usually start with pre-born life in the womb. Naturally that should be the beginning of our focus, since that’s where all human beings begin their existence.

Just ask expectant parents these days. They often talk about their unborn baby by name (for example, our son and his wife have chosen a name for their second daughter, who is due in December). Parents also see ultrasounds of their children in the womb and it’s obvious to them — as it should be to everybody — that this is a baby. Birth is just one stage in the development of that new little person.

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Steve Maurice

Islamic religious freedom not being suppressed: But building a mosque near ground zero is not appropriate

To the editor:

With all due respect to Fr. Peter Daly (Catholic Herald, September 16, 2010), the “religious freedom” argument being used against those who oppose the building of the mosque near ground zero is a platitude that increasingly rings hollow. His comparison of this issue to the bigotry against Catholics in the 19th century strikes me simply as a false parallel.

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Dave Kuhle

Islam is not a religion that can tolerate other religions

To the editor:

In Fr. Peter Daly’s article (Catholic Herald September 16, 2010) on the intolerance that some Americans have for Muslims, he describes his cordial relationship with his Imam neighbor who gave him a copy of the Koran. Father Daly urges Americans not to blame Muslims for the actions of terrorists associated with Islam, saying, “We are not at war with Islam; we are at war with terrorists.”

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Mary C. Uhler, editor

Respecting life: Love without measure

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Each year, the Catholic Church in the United States kicks off its Respect Life Program on the first Sunday of October, which is observed as Respect Life Month.

As we know, respecting human life should be something we do all year, day in and day out. However, setting aside a month to focus on respect for life gives all Catholics an opportunity to study, reflect, pray, and take action in a special way during October.

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Sr. Rosalia Bauer, FSPA

Support adult stem cell research, not embryonic

To the editor:

Stand Up To Cancer, a one hour television program, aired September 10.  The teamwork of scientists and doctors from many institutes have benefited cancer survivors.

The most inspiring, truthful words were spoken by a doctor who said that Steve Hall survived his brain cancer because of a “vaccine made from his own brain tumor!” His own adult stem cells allowed his body cells to “cure himself.”  Please re-read this last sentence.  It is adult  stem cells that have cured multiple diseases, not embryonic stem cells obtained from embryos (human babies).

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Sr. Rosalia Bauer, FSPA

Support adult stem cell research, not embryonic

To the editor:

Stand Up To Cancer, a one hour television program, aired September 10.  The teamwork of scientists and doctors from many institutes have benefited cancer survivors.

The most inspiring, truthful words were spoken by a doctor who said that Steve Hall survived his brain cancer because of a “vaccine made from his own brain tumor!” His own adult stem cells allowed his body cells to “cure himself.”  Please re-read this last sentence.  It is adult  stem cells that have cured multiple diseases, not embryonic stem cells obtained from embryos (human babies).

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