Letters to the Editor

On 28 December the Catholic Church commemorates what it calls the Holy Innocents, the boys two and under that King Herod ordered murdered in an attempt to destroy the Ruler forecast to him by the Magi.

At the present time our country officially considers acceptable the killing of an unborn child adequately developed in every way necessary to survive outside his or her mother, as it does the killing of one that with near certainty will grow into that same, viable state. The Church declared Herod’s handful of unwitting victims “martyrs,” and I see these more recent millions also as martyrs – to...