To the editor: Over the past 30-plus years, I’ve seen so many miracle tales when a mentor Huge Brother or Huge Sister extends “open arms,” as Father Gregory Boyle places it in his op-ed article, to assist a baby from a marginalized neighborhood. Youth rising up in dysfunctional environments can nonetheless succeed with the friendship and steering of a dedicated good friend who chooses to be the “arms of God.” (“The problem with JD Vance’s theology of mass deportation,” Opinion, Feb. 17)
Depriving even one in our neighborhood of a greater life hurts us all. Analysis achieved by my group reveals that communities achieve within the type of larger tax revenues and diminished crime once we assist each other.
Vice President JD Vance’s quoting of St. Thomas Aquinas to justify the Trump administration’s remedy of immigrant communities didn’t go far sufficient. Even Aquinas mentioned on his deathbed, “All I’ve written now seems as a lot straw.”
When our information fails or is divisive, we’d like compassion. Paraphrasing Father Boyle, exhibiting kinship to the unwelcome brings us all pleasure.
Ken Martinet, Los Angeles
The author is president and chief govt of Catholic Huge Brothers Huge Sisters of Los Angeles.
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To the editor: Thanks, Father Boyle, for reinvigorating my wrestle to respect my Christian neighbors who voted for leaders with mean-spirited, divisive insurance policies.
Vance’s professed observance of a theological hierarchy for who-to-love-in-what-order didn’t assist my wrestle. His citing of St. Augustine solely satisfied me that these I worship with are an endangered minority in a faith that has all the time discovered methods to deprave Jesus’ teachings.
I’ll stay awake as simply as those that use their religion to justify their human limitations. However because of Father Boyle, I’m reminded I’ve good firm in my religious insomnia.
Carol Flint, Santa Monica
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To the editor: Lastly, a voice of loving witness calling from the wilderness!
Nearly consumed by hearth, we hearken to Father Boyle guiding us to stay with love for essentially the most susceptible and frightened amongst us.
Attain out to the immigrants filling up detention facilities once more, to the accountable directors solid apart for doing their work of ministering to the hopeless throughout America and the globe. We should look to 1 one other to reimagine lives joined by Father Boyle’s homies embracing God’s full love.
Might or not it’s so. Amen.
Nan Cano, Westlake Village
