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July 12: Real support for troops, reckless drivers, Brinkley's tabloid freakshow, church corruption

July 12, 2008

Church rot is at the top

Much as I would like to praise archivist and Farmingdale resident Ed Thompson, I cannot ["Trying to repair priests' image," News, July 1].

I belong to Voice of the Faithful. I have a brother who was a priest who sacrificed his life in the missions. Thompson is right, there are many saintly priests and nuns and brothers. But unfortunately there are very few saintly bishops and cardinals. Most are rotted by power and money, especially in the Vatican.

In our own diocese we have one of the worst. These bishops and cardinals must be overthrown, just as priests rose up and drove Cardinal Bernard Law out of Boston. Until that happens, these good priests and religious must carry the cross of a church rotten at the top.

Thomas K. Lloyd Sr.

Massapequa

Drivers: Obey the law!

I just finished reading "New tragedy, old trouble spot" [News, July 9], and I am quite sick. Sick at the needless deaths on the road, not just at this intersection, but at others as well, and on slippery roads, curvey roads, roads without shoulders, etc.

Wake up, folks! It's not the roads!

It's not the fact that there is no traffic light at the intersection mentioned in this tragic story, although we know that traffic devices are a necessary thing.

But traffic lights do not prevent these types of accidents, because those who will go through a stop sign will run a red light, or jump the light when waiting to cross.

It's not the roads. It's not the stop signs, or the traffic lights. It's the drivers!

Veronica J. Douglass

Aquebogue

Support those who serve

It was with great sadness that I read "Tragic end to personal battle" [News, July 6], about Army Pfc. Joseph Dwyer, who was raised in Mount Sinai, suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after serving in Iraq and was found dead in his North Carolina home.

My heart goes out to Dwyer's parents, wife and daughter. It is obvious that our government needs to allocate more funds and provide more services for our returning soldiers who have been affected by the war, whether it be mentally or physically.

This is the very least we can do for those who have served our country. As Dwyer's mother pointed out in the story, there are many soldiers just like her son and no family should have to endure the pain the Dwyer family has suffered.

I hope that John McCain and Barack Obama are listening.

Rosemary L. Ullrich

South Setauket

Too much Christie Show

Regarding Newsday's devoting a third of a page of color photographic evidence of Christie Brinkley's handbags and their prices in the article "She has it in the bag" [News, July 10], I ask - this is news why?

Adrienne Solof

Woodbury

Are you kidding me? Newsday's front page on July 3 was of Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook's divorce case ["Beauty & the Beast," News], including two full pages within. Yet, "A ruse and a rescue" [News], about the spy operation that liberated a Colombian presidential candidate and three American hostages, was located on Page A8 with only 13 paragraphs.

As a longtime Newsday subscriber, I expect and desire reporting on stories with substance, not a tabloid freak show.

LeeAnn Castro

West Babylon

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