Same thing happened in 2008 ‘Death with Dignity’ campaign
After reading the Catholic Church called recent media coverage of how the church handled sexual-abuse cases involving priests part of an “anti-Catholic hate campaign” [“Portland archbishop assails news media,” NWWednesday, April 7], I was reminded of a similar experience during the “Death with Dignity” Initiative 1000 campaign in 2008.
When the Yes On 1000 campaign issued a news release that questioned how the bankrupt Archdiocese of Portland could afford to contribute $5,000 to the opposition campaign here while simultaneously claiming to be too poor to compensate victims of sex abuse there, we were accused of Catholic bashing.
No wonder they have such a serious public-relations problem.
— Robb Miller, Seattle
The bishops are the victims
Fairness dictates a response to your scathing editorial unjustly excoriating the Catholic Church [“A Vatican on defense,” Opinion, April 5].
Consider first, inflicted on the world is a depraved sexual revolution that reduces sacred human sexual expression to a puny erotic game in which all, including children, are urged to participate. Then the institutions of the Catholic Church are infiltrated by homosexual activists who deny the Catholic faith, proclaim there are no sexual sins and sexually abuse pubescent boys.
Then those attempting to silence the church and Christ’s teachings of love persecute the victim —the Catholic Church —when its spiritually oriented bishops make mistakes in how best to subdue this evil while also trying to protect the church from great harm.
Today, the Catholic Church surpasses all in having the most widespread and effective programs in place to eradicate this evil. Yet no credit is given for the remarkable progress that has been made in fighting the deadly cancer inflicted upon the church. Have you no shame?
The old liberal maxim lives on — persecute the victim and not the perpetrator.
— Jack Stockman, Mill Creek