‘Metro missionaries’?

The Feb. 27 edition features gender ideology and sexual identity articles. Pope Francis is reported to have spoken to the need to combat gender theory as an ideology, in that it seeks to erase the idea of family and the complementarity of men and women. Within the 2,400 words that comprise the articles, the word “parent” (or, a variation thereof) is mentioned only five times. The Minnesota Catholic Conference guidelines for diocese policies are encouraging. But combating gender ideology begins in childhood within a child’s family environment. The progressive left’s definition of a family is conceptually comparable to “gender nonconforming.” The CSAF lists 20 ministries and missions to be funded. All ministries must be evaluated on their returns on invested time, talent and treasure. There are many and varied metro-area pockets of secular decadence that await a faith propagation, modus operandi that is not conceptually different from the American Indian, Latino and Venezuelan ministries and missions. The metro loop (I-494/I-694) begs for “metro missionaries.”

Gene Delaune
St. John the Baptist, New Brighton

Not our values

On the nightly news, recently, a woman held up a sign saying “Reproductive rights is a Catholic value.” I believe that statement needs correcting. Reproductive rights might be that person’s value, or the value of some Catholics, but it is not a Catholic value. The woman holding the sign shouldn’t be speaking for the Catholics who believe that we don’t have the right to kill babies. The beginning of life, the right to that life, and when a life ends, belongs to God alone.

Lucille Carlson
St. Peter, Forest Lake

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