"Tuesday, February 19, 2008"

"To: Mr. Fred Fraser, M.A., Instructor. Christendom College, Front Royal, Virginia.

"Re: Accuracy of this quote: The Greek word in the Gospels which is often translated as sin is better translated as missing the mark.

"Dear Mr. Fraser:

"I would be only too happy to hear from you regarding this passage in a booklet (Number 26) from a series called the Growing Faith Project, copyrighted in 2005 by a Mr. William T. Huebsch, and issued under the NIHIL OBSTAT of the Rev. Dale Nau, Chancellor of the Diocese of Duluth, Censor Librorum, and bearing as well as the IMPRIMATUR of the Most Reverend Dennis M. Schnurr, Bishop of Duluth.

"Continuing on down from the quote we've already given above, we read:

An archer with a bent arrow cannot hit the target. The arrow will fly off in an errant direction and the archer will have to chase after it, straighten it out, and then try again. We are like that arrow: we are made for love alone and when we fail to love well, we miss our mark.

"When we were so rash as to ask our facilitator what the linguistic / doctrinal cites were for all this, we were assured that none were really necessary.

"Why?

"Because the local Parish Pastoral Council [note!] had voted more or less unanimously to go with this body of material as is, although one does have the right to express an opinion, although not necessarily an opinion to the contrary.

"Such being the case, Mr. Fraser, I would indeed appreciate a second opinion regarding the accuracy -- in terms of the original Greek word for sin and how it should have been translated these past 2,000 years or so, as we quoted above.

"Thank you so much!

"Respectfully submitted,

" etc.

"Catholic Parish of
"St. Mary Magdalene's Church
"Brackettville, Texas 78832."

Note:

We been told since then that two(2) members of the Parish Pastoral Council at that time were Lourdes Z. and Yolanda R.

Note two:

Mr Fraser's welcomed letter in response was short and to the point, you can well believe it! :)

So, too, were a a number of others, including letters from highly qualified professors themselves from first - class secular universities here in America.