Author Archives: R.M. Schultz

Sirs: In his recent letter [December 17] David Prindable was absolutely correct in pointing up that the 49th precinct of Chicago’s 42nd Ward was heavily Republican because of the presence of Moody Bible Institute. As a resident of the adjacent 17th precinct, I well recall the swarms of naive Bible students passing out “Pro-Life” literature […]

Sirs: In your article “Devil Worship” of 6 October [Hot Type] you state “Reverend Eugene Lauer of the Catholic Theological Union allowed that American Catholics are split down the middle as to whether the devil exists.” Please note well that the Catechism of the Catholic Church makes clear that the devil most certainly exists and […]

Sirs: I was glad to see a fair-handed report on the movement to restore cumulative voting [October 15]. May I take this opportunity to propose a more comprehensive plan for reforming our legislature? 1. Reformulation of the House of Representatives into a 200-member body, elected at large, statewide, by list. This means that each party […]

schultz.qxd Sirs: I must strongly object to the rosy picture of anarchists presented in your issue of 3 July. They are most assuredly not a crew of swell fellows who like to picnic in the park, communing with nature in the sylvan glen: they are a pack of demoniac madmen bent on the obliteration of […]

schultz2.qxd Joyous Christian Greetings! Is “nuanced” a code word for “fraudulent” in general, or just for “anti-Catholic” in particular? Michael Miner presents the “nuanced” interpretation that Onan was struck dead by God for violating the Levirate law, not for practicing coitus interruptus [Letters, January 30]. How then does Mr. Miner “nuance” the fact that neither […]

schultz.qxd Joyous Christian greetings! Robert McClory is, by his own reasoning, dead wrong about women priests and contraception [Hot Type, January 16]. McClory states that “the pope is infallible if he’s teaching what the church believes,” and the church’s teaching on both of these matters has been pretty clear over the last two millennia. Christ, […]

schultz.qxd Sir: Just why is it that feminists are so busy picketing the Promise Keepers’ convention [Our Town, May 30]? After all, Promise Keepers is a fairly innocuous organization that, though advocating patriarchy at home, also advocates many positive goods, such as sobriety, chastity, and good citizenship. And while Christianity advocates different life stations for […]

Let me get this straight: Just because I agree with them on one point, Andy Thayer (Letters, December 22) says I am in “fine bourgeois company, having joined the bigots’ club of Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, and yes, Bill “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Clinton.” I guess that means Comrade Thayer has joined the “Guilt by […]

Militant Bolshevik Greetings Comrade! I would like to clear up the mess that David Futrelle [September 15] and Alan Maass [Letters, October 20] have made with their discussion of “Marxism” in your newspaper. The fundamental cause of confusion is accepting the International Socialist Organization as a Marxist organization. In point of fact they are a […]

Joyous Christian Greetings! In your issue of 24 June, in the “Lecture Notes” column [Calendar], Imani Nyah made accusations that the Catholic Church supported the Fascist genocide against the Ethiopians. Specifically, the accusation was that the Pope blessed the planes used to bomb and gas civilians. These charges are nothing short of fantastic. It is […]

To the editors: I realize that white males, incumbent politicians, and the Catholic Church are the only “Politically Correct” targets for cheap shots these days, but I feel compelled to reply to Bill Wyman’s low blows and misrepresentations with some clarification [Hitsville, October 23]. The Catholic Church is not, as Mr. Wyman asserts, “right-wing.” The […]

To the editors: Joyous Christian Greetings! I would like to respond to Reverend Dr. Timm Peterson’s letter (September 4) concerning the Reverend Hybels’s Superchurch. Much as I am dismayed by the slick marketing of the “Superchurches” I am really sick and tired of “politically correct” liberals plastering over Christ’s message with a lot of trendy […]

To the editors: Joyous Christian Greetings! In response to my letter [March 13] Jane Ellingwood [Letters, April 3] says that Christians are those who follow Christ and his teaching. True enough, but my letter dealt with the question of who are Catholics? In point of fact, they are those Christians in communion with Christ’s Vicar […]

To the editors: Before addressing my main reason for writing, let me commend the Reader for running your article on priest-pederasts [May 24, 1991]. This was a well-researched, though frightening, article and its publication was in every sense a public service and a fine example of unbiased reporting. I hope that this will help prod […]