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Letters to the Editor for Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Dear Sirs,

You are to be congratulated on your excellent site.

I have only read you for a month and am very pleased by what I see. I only hope you are in every Chancellery Office in North America and beyond and The Vatican.

Regards and Prayers
Michael O'Neill
Kanata Ontario

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RE: Final Comment on Broken Window Series
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/nov/08112812.html

I see the list of Broken Windows and there are many more. But, to fix them the regulations in the General Instruction of the Roman Missal (GIRM), and others have to be enforced. Rome, the Bishops, and the Priests talk about it but nobody wants to enforce them for various reasons. The faithful are not timid but when they complain no one seems to listen. Until there is enforcement we can talk about these issues forever.

Angelo Cavicchiol
Sault Ste Marie, Ontario

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With reference to your Final Comment on Broken Window series, the second paragraph of  Item 4 titled  “School Texts,” starts with the words  “Either a priest is a priest or a Layman.”

I thought that you might like to know that when Pope John Paul the Great visited Maynooth in Ireland on 1st October 1979 he offered words of encouragement to all  Priests, Missionaries, Religious brothers and sisters and Seminarians present. Part of his wonderful address contained these exact words: “Do not help the trend towards ‘taking God off the streets’ by adopting secular modes of dress and behaviour yourselves.”

Pat Ryan

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RE: Formation of Coalition Government in Canada

Media verbiage notwithstanding, voters do not elect a government.  Voters did not make Stephen Harper Prime Minister.  To state otherwise is bad political science.  In our system, voters create a House of Commons.  By tradition, not law, the party which commands the confidence of the House becomes the governing party. And the leader of that party becomes Prime Minister.

Should one group prove deficient, members may create a coalition in an attempt to realize the confidence of a majority of the House of Commons.  No matter how the seats are shuffled, the result is an exercise in democracy, hardly a "mugging."  But, yes, it certainly was unnecessary.  The culprit is not hard to find.

The current situation in Ottawa is hardly "incredible."  We are witnessing a different way of shuffling the cards. It's the same game, following the same rules, but with a result and in a manner with which we are not familiar.

Should the coalition be created, and win the necessary confidence, it is in fact an elected government --- elected by democratically elected Members of Parliament.  While this definitely does not bode well for the family and the unborn, it is the way our version of messy democracy works.

Indeed, let's all pray some good may come of this.

Raymond Peringer
Toronto, ON

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