Readers Write: Finding hope, Minneapolis elections, Metro Transit, Cuba On hope, and where to find it. July 25, 2021 6:00pm Text size Copy shortlink:
The July 22 front-page article New vets center to fight lethal absence of hope speaks eloquently to a core function of faith in our public conversation, the need for hope.
A number of articles and letters to the editor have recently addressed a number of church/state questions religious influence and religious civic problems and issues. Can the president of the United States be a good Roman Catholic if he supports abortion? What about those church-run schools in Canada that failed so tragically the Indian populations entrusted to their care?Where does civic interaction and religious freedom go astray? Can a religious community be forced to violate their beliefs or lose the funding for their social work efforts if the civic community has changed its mind about a