Membership Open to All
The sponsoring group for the Blythe Street project is a Christian community with membership open to lay women and men, married or single. It is grossly misleading to indicate that a previous religious order became a nondenominational Christian lay organization (“Former Nuns Tackle a Dangerous Mission,” Times Valley Edition, Jan. 29).
That religious order was culminated almost 25 years ago. In 1970, a new entity known as the Immaculate Heart Community was formed. The community is not related to any denomination except for the fact that its members are Christians. Many of them are Roman Catholics, but a sizable number are of other Christian traditions.
Among its members are lawyers, psychologists and counselors, scientists, teachers and administrators in colleges, inner-city elementary and secondary schools, adult education and English as a second language. Others work in health care, the juvenile justice system, advocacy and programs for the handicapped.
The statement in the article that “most members live communally” does not conform to the facts. Members live wherever circumstances indicate, singly, with one or two others, in an apartment complex, or with spouses and family.
CATHERINE EAGAN, ROSE M. MARTIN, LIZA FLYNN
Sylmar
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