In response to 'Haunted', it must be recognised that although the Church has a responsibility to care for the souls of people, it is not the Church's purview to force people into conditions that get them pregnant. It is not the Church who decides that people should bring children into the world in an irresponsible manner. Nor does the Church violate anyone and impregnate them with a child.

Why should the Church be blamed for not acting after the fact on the kind of behaviour that makes us want to abort our children, or any other sinful practice against which the Church continually warns.

Many abortions come about as the afterthought of sexual irresponsibility, which results in disappointment, frustration and a desire to hide and to lie. Abortion is usually the solution chosen to fix a problem which the Church did not create.

Carelessness

Orphanages should be reserved for children who have come not out of the carelessness of men and women, but out of the deliberate violation of another human being.

Yes, it is the Church's job to help in this regard, but who is now mandating the Church to clean up after people who refuse to listen to the warnings of the Church to live righteously and to remain celibate until and unless the preparation of marriage is made for children?

Recently, the blame has shifted somewhat from the dead horse of the politicians to the Church for the ills of society. Did anyone ever stop to think that the Church is made up of people, some of whom see church as a social gathering and stubbornly refuse to obey either God or man.

mission

The Church is the Bride of Jesus Christ, called to worship him and to serve humanity, but it is His creation and only He can determine how she should serve. She is not a figment of our imaginings to determine how she should operate.

I am, etc.,

Yvonne O. Coke

Hands Across Jamaica For Righteousness

handsacrossjamaica@hotmail.com

2 Acacia Avenue

Kingston 5