This week in Post Dispatch Town Talk

It's a shame that there are no names associated with the comments left there. But then again, it might be a source of embarrassment if one had to actually reveal one's identity when making such asinie or hateful comments.

Burke vs. St. Stanislaus

ARCHBISHOP RAYMOND BURKE should be ashamed of himself. He reminds me of a tyrant and a bully. What father would deny their child food, disown them or condemn their soul over a disagreement? Cannon law is made by man. God's law is about love. A parent does not turn their back on their children nor deny them good to get their way. Burke needs to back off and follow the saying "What Would Jesus Do." I don't think Jesus would act like an extortionist and use any means to get what he wants. Burke wants the money. Would he act like this if the church did not have $9 million in assets? Leave St. Stanislaus alone.

Another clueless individual...

And then there's this one. The individual has concluded that proceeds from the upcoming church closings are to pay for victims of sexual predators.

It's all about the settlements

LAST YEAR, THE archdiocese announced that the money paid for settlements for the priest scandal did not come from donations, but would come from the sale of real estate. They archdiocese is closing churches in South County, North County, and now they are closing the churches in South City. They are closing and selling our churches to pay for the their scandals. Catholics have to wake up all that will be left is the Catholic church of West County or the St. Louis archdiocese of West County.

Again, another clueless person who doesn't see or understand the issues involved in the archdiocese.

Lastly, we have a person revealing something about which I didn't know and that, perhaps, many others were unaware. Did some teachers in the archdiocese actually send the Archbishop a "lump of coal"...And this person, who engages in calumny against the Archbishop, professes to be "Catholic"...

Return to sender

I'M CALLING IN regards to the teachers that hand-delivered a Christmas present to Archbishop Burke. It was a lump of coal. He doesn't even deserve that. Send him back to where he came from. He's nothing but a troublemaker, a greedy, greedy person. I'm Catholic and I have absolutely no use for that man.

Sad...this person engages in the unjust damaging of the good name of Archbishop Burke by imputing to him a faults of which he is not guilty.