To my surprise, my letter to the editor of the Georgia Bulletin regarding the recent study that reveals Catholic young people aren’t really interested in being Catholic was published in the most recent issue. An excerpt from my letter:

In response to the article in the Feb. 21 edition of The Georgia Bulletin, “Young Catholics Embrace Jesus’ Message, Not Practices,” I would ask the faithful of Georgia to call upon Archbishop Gregory to make a statement. Throughout the article, the impression is given that church teachings are negotiable. Statements such as, “Increasingly, people want a dialogue with bishops and other church leaders on moral issues” gives the false impression that church teachings are up for discussion—that the laity could meet with the clergy and have a discussion and get her teachings changed or at least softened a bit.

Not sure if it’s insidious or just some sort of journalistic standard, but throughout the letter, I capitalized the word “Church” as well as the pronouns “She” and “Her” in reference to the Church, and the editor went through and un-capitalized them.

The whole editorial is here