Letters

Caritas

P.W. English

Contents - Jul 2012 - Buy a copy now Homily: Benedict XVI: Sts Peter and Paul and the priesthood - Pope Benedict XVI Religious Freedom: Prague's Cardinal Duka thanks Australians for helping religious prisoners - Peter Westmore News: The Church Around the World Campus Life: A new model for Catholic university chaplaincy in Brisbane - Br Barry Coldrey Obama and same-sex 'marriage': Shaking his fist at God - Babette Francis The climate alarmist 'religion' and Third World poverty - David Legates Benedict XVI calls for reform of US Catholic higher education - Hilary White Austrian Chancellor's son: How faith helped to survive the Nazis - Michelle Baumann Update: 'Jesus Abandoned' aid reaches the needy in Nigeria - Madonna Brosnan 'Born again': how to change from a nominal to a "living" Christian - Andrew Kania Benedict XVI: Grave threats to the Church's moral witness - Donald R. McClarey Letters: Papal infallibility - Peter D. Howard Letters: Reasons for Hope - Anthony English Letters: Transubstantiation - Frank Mobbs Letters: US religious women - Richard Congram Letters: Anti-Catholicism - Fr. M. Shadbolt Letters: Caritas - P.W. English Letters: Communion reception - Ken Bayliss Letters: Patron Saints - Fred Preshaw Books: ANSWERING THE ANTI-CATHOLIC CHALLENGE, by Robert M. Haddad - Angela Schumann (reviewer) Books: FR ALEXANDER MEN: Martyr of Atheism, by Michel Evdokimov - Michael Daniel (reviewer) Books: THE FACE OF GOD and THE TRUE ICON, by Paul Badde - Paul MacLeod Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au Letters: The Year of Grace and the New Evangelisation - Fr Dennis Byrnes

I have been a strong supporter of Caritas over the years so I am dismayed to find out that it is a member of the Climate Action Network. This Network was formed in 1998 to be the Australian branch of the Global Action network and is a radical green group dedicated to fighting climate change. At the present time they are running a campaign to stop the coal exports from Australia.

I always thought that Caritas was formed to help the poor people of the world improve their standard of living. Therefore to learn that they are contributing some of my money to a group "fighting" climate change is devastating. Climate change has always been with us and will continue into the future. Any action to "control" our climate will prove ultimately futile.

As far as Caritas is concerned I will not contribute any more money to them unless they get back to their core business of being a charitable organisation.

P.W. ENGLISH
Malanda, Qld

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 25 No 6 (July 2012), p. 15