Re “Young adults pray for attackers during Zoom call” (B.C. Catholic, April 13):
A word of caution to Father Paul Goo re the “virtual church.” Please do not invite people from places where Christians are persecuted, particularly China. Possible data transmission /leakage on IP addresses, home addresses, etc. could lead to identification and persecution of the faithful!
Our Lady of Sheshan, pray for us!
Grace Lee
North Vancouver
On Good Friday morning I was reading Julie VanSpall’s April 6 article “Where are the faithful now?” It spoke to me quite powerfully. I paused, reflected, prayed, and then continued to finish reading the article. I haven’t done that in a long time. Thank you, Julie.
Paul Clarke
Delta
The sexual abuse controversy about L’Arche founder Jean Vanier invites the question: can you separate the man from his work?
How can a man who over the years performed such great acts of kindness and generosity to people with intellectual disabilities be the same man (if allegations are true) who sexually abused women?
Vanier was certainly not an anomaly among high-profile, if not religious, men who followed the same path. Is man’s morality or immorality tied up with his good work? And how can there be such a huge dichotomy between the two? How can good and evil, at its most extreme, exist in a person?
We all have our dark side – we are human after all – but not in the same context as what purportedly great men subsume, possibly throwing away their legacy in the process.
And we as spectators, and for some, admirers even, are left to grapple man’s complexity and ethics in the same breath.
As St. Thomas Aquinas said, “The soul is known by its acts.”
Grace Trinidad-Green
Vancouver
