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DALLAS DIVISIONS br> Re: George Neumayr's Doing Dallas : /p>

As a practicing Catholic living in America I am very disturbed by the unraveling of this recent crisis. I think it is hypocritical of the Church to protect abusive priests while condemning this very behavior from the pulpit, however, we must be careful, as the public and media, not to condemn the church as a whole. A church by definition is the collective community, and in this case the Catholic Church as a community, including priests, bishops, cardinals, parishioners, deacons, etc. has and continues to do God's work in a manner that I can be proud of.

The recent attacks on the "Church" may have a more far reaching detrimental effect on the country than we may be able to see now. As we all know this country was founded on Christian beliefs, and by attacking the "Church" as a whole community without singling out those select few perpetrators, will continue the steady erosion of Christianity and the belief system this country was founded upon. This seems to me to be a greater underlying problem than is currently being discussed.

p>I ask you to please use a bit more responsibility in your commentary before we completely dismantle everything this country has worked so hard for. br> -- S. Donahue br> El Granada, CA /p> p> George Neumayr ... apparently so loves himself that he cannot be objective. br> -- Bill Guentner

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