Numerous Rebuttals in "Town Talk" Today & a plug for WRYT Radio

Blasphemy and sacrilege
THE FIRST THREE Town Talkers Jan. 19 were sacrilegious blasphemers against the Catholic Church. And you Journal folk are worst than them for publishing the blasphemies against the one true, holy Roman Catholic Church, which means universal, apostolic, traditional church. I have one word for you people: Repent now before you die because eternity is forever.

Many would not heed these words especially if they do not believe in an immortal soul or if their thinking has been corrupted by a universal salvation mentality. First and foremost is prayer.

Sue the newspaper boy
TO THE MORON that called in and said he was going to sue people that bashed the Catholic religion. You are a joke and that's about the funniest thing I ever heard. How are you going to sue people when you don't even know who they are? You're going to sue the newspaper boy? You better have big money because the newspapers are backed by some big bucks. You don't even know what freedom of speech is. People can speak their opinion. That's why they call it Town Talk. Just speak your mind. If you think you're going to sue people, you're out of your mind.

I still believe that the person last week or so who was ranting about suing everyone was a non-Catholic lunatic, but I'm sure we'll never know.

Religious experience
IN REGARD TO "Talk to parishioners," Bishop Burke and the slam that they did to Jamie Allman just because he's only been a Catholic for six years. Sometimes the new ones know better than the old ones because they pay more attention and they've chosen this religion, not grown up in it.

Perhaps, in time, Jamie Allman might set the record straight and tell us his reasons for his conversion?

Back off, Catholic bashers
I WONDER HOW many other Catholics are as sick and tired as I am of those non-Catholics and those who claim to be former Catholics, who call in or write to the newspapers to criticize our religion and our religious leaders. If you have never been a Catholic, what right have you to criticize something you know little or nothing about? And if you are a so-called, self-styled former Catholic then you could not have ever believed in or been really serious about your religion or you wouldn't have left it. In other words, it's none of your business what we Catholics believe in and do. So just mind your own business and stop your hateful bashing of Catholics and the Catholic faith.

Rather, we should be prepared for this and we should be able to charitably defend the Faith. This sort of persecution is mild, compared to what has occurred in the past. It must be noted as well that some of the most venomous enemies of the Church are those who claim to be "ex-Catholics". They, too, need our prayers and, with God's graces, they may become receptive to His call to conversion.

It's not a Democracy
THIS IS IN reference to last week's issue of Town Talk: It seems like Catholics are being blamed for everything, including accountability and loose running dogs. Some of it borders on ridiculous. I'm surprised you print this dribble. The Catholic Church is not a democracy.

Since it is an divine and human institution founded by Christ Himself, the Church must be a target of humiliation, persecution, and other attacks just as our Lord was and as He tells us that we shall be - if we choose to follow Him.

Bible lesson
THE EDITOR FAILED to correct the caller who asked Catholics to read the St. James Bible instead of the "Catechism Bible." Catholics and Protestants use the exact same new testaments in the Bibles. Chapters and verses are the same. The King James differs because it has seven fewer Old Testament books. This dates back to Martin Luther, who took them out because they weren't written in Hebrew. If you want to find out more, listen to AM1080 Catholic radio because many of the hosts of call-in shows are former Protestants and they help explain the differences and similarities. And Catholics, I love Jesus and I love the church He founded in Matthew chapter 16, verse 18. Thanks for this opportunity and God bless.

This is a great plug for Catholic Radio (WRYT) - maybe, just maybe, a few souls might come to see the light of the truth in Christ and His Church. Perhaps even some nominally Catholic individuals will be drawn more deeply to the Church? We can certainly pray that this become so.

Respect Catholics
TO ALL YOU people that are downing Catholic religion, what right do you have doing this? No one is asking you to join the Catholic religion. No one is twisting your arm. So leave us alone. If you have any Christian upbringing, you do not bad-mouth another person's religion.

A society which is poisoned by living in a 'culture of death' will have little reason to respect another's religion or opinion - moral relativism allows that all opinions are equal since there is no absolute truth (except that one - "There is no absolute truth!" We must, however, do all we can in evangelizing those professed Christians with the fullness of truth as found in the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church. We must not expect major successes, but must remember that there is more rejoicing in Heaven over the returning of one lost member to the fold than there is in the others who remain in the fold. The work of the laity is to bring the Good News to the world, and for Catholics, we should always be aware of those opportunities where we can do this and take advantage of those opportunities - and with God's graces and blessings, help those come to Jesus Christ.

Source of Today's "Town Talk"