Letters

Sexual abuse of children: a response

Anne Lastmen

Contents - Jul 2015 Laudato Si: Pope Francis’ call for “dialogue” on environmental challenges - Peter Westmore Family Synod: African bishops pledge to uphold Church teaching on marriage - AD2000 Report Culture: Magna Carta and Christianity: the inseparable links - Dr Augusto Zimmermann Religious freedom: Gay lobby targets Tasmania’s Archbishop Julian Porteous - AD2000 Report Marriage: The slippery slope to same-sex “marriage” - Anne Lastman Scripture: Ephphata! Be opened! (Mark 7:34) - Andrew Sholl Turin and Manoppello: “He has risen as he said ...” - Paul Badde Letters: “Our homeland is in heaven”: a response - Audrey English Letters: The Pope and “climate change” - Charles M. Shann Letters: Capital punishment: another view - Brendan Scheiner Letters: The Church and liberalism - Peter Gilet Letters: Don’t create a new stolen generation - Robert Bom Letters: Sexual abuse of children: a response - Anne Lastmen Books: THE MYTH OF HITLER’S POPE, by Rabbi David G. Dalin - Paul Simmons (reviewer) Books: THE CREED IN SCRIPTURE, by Stephen J. Binz - Paul Simmons (reviewer) Books: Contemplative Prayer: a New Framework, by Dom David Foster - Patrick Nolan (reviewer) Reflection: Benedict XVI acknowledges debt to St John Paul II - Pope Benedict XVI

I wish to respond to Dr Jago’s comment re sexual abuse in families, that is what my new book, Hidden Pain (available from me or Freedom Publishing) is about.

A further comment regarding the ongoing debate on the use of smartphones and tablets at Mass etc. When reading the ongoing disagreements, I remembered going to a Jewish religious service and remember the rabbi coming into the synagogue holding aloft a beautiful Torah Scroll with its crown of many jewels and the reverence with which it was seen and held.

I wonder if they will walk into synagogue holding aloft an app. Methinks not.

The “Word” of God for the Jewish people is holy and to be treated as holy with all the reverence which can be mastered.

ANNE LASTMAN,
Victims of Abortion,
Vermont South, Vic.

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 28 No 6 (July 2015), p. 9