Edition: September 1, 2010

Kudos to the Register

Kudos to my beloved Register for what I just learned from the editor’s column “Superior stewardship delivering the Good News” (Aug. 25 Register) explaining the new delivery system saving the Register, the archdiocese and me $200,000 annually.

Your novel approach, thinking out of the box, resulted from positive thinking, seeing the glass as half full, making lemonade out of the lemon you were handed or whatever metaphor you prefer. Very, very well done!

In these times of again failing Keynesian (Hoover-Roosevelt) economic policy it is ever more important to have responsible, positive-thinking, willing-to-experiment people in order that the Lord’s work stay on track, disregarding economic situations and cycles.

When placed in juxtaposition, the Register’s accomplishment stands in stark contrast with the whiney approach described on Page 6 in the same Register in Nancy O’Brien’s article “Charities, periodicals fight postal rate hikes that could sink some” about potentially raising postal rates that could well negatively affect charity fundraising.

They will have to adapt to whatever cost situations are put before them. Depending on taxpayers to fund our efforts is not conscionable in my personal opinion. They need to be telling us what they will do to surmount their challenge, which will always be continuing and changing—that we know.

Anyway, thank you again for the important good you are accomplishing for Archbishop Chaput’s sheep—at decreasing cost!

Lou Schroeder
Greenwood Village