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Christopher Manion br> Front Royal, VA /p> p> Readers would really appreciate Tamberg's presenting us with Neumayr's inaccuracies and falsehoods." In the light of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles' track record, we have little reason at all to trust Tamberg's assertions. No, it is going to take a lot more than Tamberg's mud-slinging to convince anyone with a brain cell left operating in his head that things are really different in Los Angeles. Castigating Neumayr may make Tamberg feel better and divert attention away from the swelling scandal in LA, but one can only wish such outrage had focused on the many predators that have lurked, under protection, in the Archdiocese. Yes, anger at the evil of ecclesiastical corruption and gross incompetence would be much more understandable than such a temper tantrum, as is Tamberg's, aimed at a journalist who has the guts to write what most of us are thinking, what is so obviously the truth.... br> -- Ray Williams /p>

I was "delighted" to read Mr. Tamberg's reply to George Neumayr because that means his eminence reads the Prowler and George's efforts are not in vain.

I have read Mr. Neumayr's columns for months now and do not get the same reaction as Mr. Tamberg.

I do not think George hates gays. He disapproves of their sexual activity as all good Catholics should. As a consequence of that disapproval we are bound as Catholics not to encourage such behavior by allowing "getting to know you socials" at colleges, homosexual dormitories (you get the picture) also most of us 96% of the current population are heterosexual and would prefer our kindergartners not be exposed to the more troublesome aspects of society via "Heather Has Two Mommies" etc. (usually called the homosexual agenda).

Vatican II many of us know has been seized upon by those who want to change fundamental dogma to suit their own purposes. Nowhere in Vatican II does it say to espouse the homosexual lifestyle or to say Mass as the "do it yourselfers" are indulging in at this time.

Catholic education in the United States has strayed far from its original intent and inspired Rome to issue ex ecclesiae corde, unless Mr. Tamberg thinks they were "bumping their gums" for nothing. Witness the number (a lot of them Jesuit institutions, I might add) that gave a forum to "The Vagina Monologues" and pro-abortion commencement speakers. (I had correspondence with Mr. Tamberg on this latter subject as the Sanchez sisters spoke at Mt. Saint Mary's in Los Angeles, an unaffiliated Catholic college. Mr. Tamberg did a Pontius Pilate routine and said the cardinal had no jurisdiction over this school. One of the Sanchez sisters promptly returned to Washington to introduce a bill to allow abortions at military installations.)...

p>Cardinal Mahony is simply indefensible. Any ordinary citizen with his record would be in jail if only for the perjury he committed in Fresno, but of course the list goes on and on. It's only a matter of time, Mr. Tamberg, only a matter of time. br> -- Annette Cwik

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