After reading the Catholic News Herald’s May 29 article “Community Culinary School feeds bishops and dreams,” I found it inspiring what the Community Culinary School is doing. As the old saying goes, “Don’t give me a fish; instead, teach me how to fish.”
I not only enjoyed learning about this school, but also the decision by our bishop to select them as a caterer. What a great example of practicing what one preaches.
I was also inspired by Ron Ahlert, a Community Culinary School chef who through this connection with the diocese has begun to re-examine his faith and attend Mass again.
May the Holy Spirit reunite him with a deep love of our Lord and our Catholic Church.
Reporter Lisa Geraci beautifully wove these three points into one article. I have never in my 66 years written to a reporter, but I felt inspired to make sure she knows she is doing great work and doing God’s will.
Kevin McHugh is a member of St. Pius X Parish in Greensboro.
Regarding the news brief in the Catholic News Herald’s May 1 edition titled, “Pope Leo encourages death penalty abolitionists,” Pope Leo XIV’s witness to efforts to abolish the death penalty is morally courageous and sets an example for all of us.
Heinous acts of violence cannot be undone. Victims and their families unquestionably need consolation and support. However, killing the killers only perpetuates the cycle of violence. Capital punishment – be it lethal injection, lethal gas, firing squad or electrocution – is permanent, final and irreversible. Execution leaves no chance for redemption for the perpetrator. It also does not allow for the exoneration of the wrongfully-convicted innocent.
Our state and national justice systems legally allow capital punishment; morally, God’s justice and mercy do not.
Anne McDonald Cochran lives in Indian Trail.