I do not understand the Catholic News Service article in the Oct. 9 edition of the Catholic News Herald, "Vatican says pope's meeting with Ky. clerk is not an endorsement."
Of course the pope and the Catholic Church endorse Kim Davis. The Catechism of the Catholic Church – specifically sections 2335, 2337, 1639 and 1641 – provides just a few points of the Church's teaching on the nature of marriage. What Kim Davis is doing is exactly what all Christians are called to do. We are to live the Gospel even if we are persecuted for spreading God's truth.
To love is to show someone when they are in error and inform them when they are hurting their soul. In this upcoming Year of Mercy, we as God's people need to focus on spiritual works of mercy. Our souls are the most important part of our human nature. Love should always be our moving force. We must admonish the sinner and instruct the ignorant. We must do this by helping people understand and learn the truths which God has revealed to us.
Our world is thirsty for truth and we tire from the truths being changed, where right becomes wrong and wrong becomes right. The verse from Amos 8:11-12 is worth pondering.
We as a world are under judgment, and that is why we continue to lose on every front. Christians need to turn back to God because He is the light. I pray for moral strength for ourselves and our shepherds every day, because we all need it so much.
— Michael W. Doub lives in Hamptonville, N.C.
Abortion is the murder of a human being. No excuse or euphemism can change that.
A baby in the womb is a separate person deserving of the right to life. He or she has separate DNA, a separate heart and a soul.
Yes, carrying a child for nine months is inconvenient if the child is not wanted. But the mother will soon be over it. A child murdered in the womb will never get over it.
The state has the right to take the life of certain vile offenders, but none of them are children in the womb.
More than 10,000 families in America are waiting to adopt a child.
Need a practical reason to oppose abortion? Since 1973, America has allowed the legal murder of more than 57 million children in the womb. There would be no Social Security crisis if those people had not been killed before they had the opportunity to become educated, married and productive members of the workforce.
All across America, crisis pregnancy centers are eager to help women with unplanned pregnancies. The amount of support, resources and prayer to be found in such facilities is beyond measure. No woman need kill her baby.
— Hale Meserow lives in Hendersonville.