Author Isn’t Answer to Catholics’ Prayers

Regarding Uta Ranke-Heinemann vs. the Catholic Church, I cannot but agree with some of what she says about the church’s anti-feminism and imposed priestly celibacy.

However, as she presents herself as an intelligent, well-read woman of her times, I cannot understand her condemnation of the Persian Gulf war as “total madness.� Would she prefer to let Saddam Hussein and his like reach our shores before we act to stop him?

SHEILA CONARY-THUM

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