Recent Letters

SB 360, written by state Sen. Jerry Hill of San Mateo, seeks to impose a duty upon Catholic priests to violate the seal of the confessional when he obtains “knowledge or reasonable suspicion of child abuse or neglect t... during a penitential communication ... between a clergy member and another person that is employed at the same site or facility as the clergy member ... [or] ... between a clergy member and another clergy member.”

I have been following Catholic San Francisco on Facebook and Twitter for a while. It seems to me that recent posts on Facebook have been more about current “issues” than about news and happenings in the archdiocese. I look at this as a positive move.

Thank you, Tom Hehir, for bringing attention to the suffering and struggles of LGBTQ youth (June 20 letters), and for the call to open our arms wide and lovingly to all of these children of God.

While I agree all seven themes of social teaching Mr. Albert listed are very important for Catholics to consider, pro-life must come first; no other rights can be safeguarded unless that is protected from conception to natural death. Further, war and execution are not always morally wrong.

Pope Francis’ encyclical “Laudato si’” struck me as one of the most contemporary Christian concerns: a focus on mankind’s assault on God’s nature and a call to temper it. To paraphrase the pope, “God always forgives, but nature, when mistreated, never forgives.”