Dear Mr. D’Agostino,
I recently got hold of a copy of your article. “Suicide of the West?,” wherein you describe, among other things, the West’s “rapid course to suicide.”
Thank you very much for all your efforts in promoting and defending the family, specifically by presenting to all the truth about demographic issues. May the good Lord bless you in your endeavors.
With every best wish, I remain,
Sincerely yours in Christ,
+ Alfonso Card. López Trujillo
President, Pontifical Council for the Family
Vatican City
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am very happy about your efforts and encourage you to carry on, in spite of difficulties.
Even though I cannot support you financially, since I am a vowed religious, living in community, I surely pray for you.
Wishing you a blessed, HOLY NIGHT,
Sincerely,
Sr. Marita Schweiger, OSB, Nebraska
You all sent such a beautiful Christmas card in the mail. Thank you so much!
Merry Christmas, many blessings and graces for your work and your lives.
Dibby Green California
Dearest Beloved,
Greetings to you from Lagos, Nigeria. I write to tell you how much I appreciate all the efforts during this year accomplished by your wonderful organization.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all.
And remain blessed.
Sincerely in the Gospel of Life,
Pastor Jeremiah Lasun Ifekoya, Nigeria
Concerning your item, “Suicide of the West?,” the Vatican interviews: Is it true that the opposite tendency, an asymmetric emphasis on “population,” results in a “reverse commoditization,” where the issue is again one of numbers (the child as means to an end, a mistake made both by the population controllers as well as by too many of their critics). That should not he our point, although it is a useful observation as a symptom of the contraceptive pathology. I can only imagine what the disastrous results might be if we asked contraceptive parents, who by their deviant behavior may have already disqualified themselves as suitable and just parents, to bear more children? Would that be right for the children they would bear? For the society that would be asked to bear the resulting difficulties?
The real pathology is closer to Benedict XVI’s notion — contraception as enemy of love, and the resulting fear of (and true and real incapacitation in) motherhood and fatherhood. When we too often lament the pure numbers, without acknowledging the manifold difficulties touching the syndrome of procreation without love, we may give the impression that an unconsidered “increase” is the answer, where it is surely, surely, not.
This is something to think about.
Dr. D. Pedulla
The Edith Stein Foundation
Oklahoma
Dear Friends at PRI,
I am fully in sync with what you are doing. But there is one little point with which I heartily disagree. I am very much against our country’s and the developed world’s headlong gouging of the world’s oil supplies.
Oil is a very special commodity the uses of which are constantly being discovered. We are acting as if the only use of oil is to burn it for transportation and heating. I have bought a Toyota Prius and can’t wait for even more radically different sources of transportation power.
Our profligate destruction of the world’s limited oil reserves is obscene. God bless you for your articulate and persistent defense of human rights, especially the right to live.
Rev. Alfred R. Guthrie, New York
Steve and Joseph,
Regarding your PRI Weekly Briefing “Pro-Abortion Side Considers Children Less Than Animals”: Here in the Australian Capital Territory, it is illegal to kill native animals, including snakes, born or unborn, but it is legal to kill unborn humans. Less than animals indeed.
Gerard A. Joseph, Australia
