Following is a letter from Dr. James Likoudis, president emeritus of Catholics United for the Faith, writing to the Buffalo News concerning the social/secular agenda and anti-Catholic bias exibited by this paper.

July 16, 1996

Letter to the Editor
Buffalo News
One News Plaza
Buffalo, N.Y. 14240

Dear Sir:

Perhaps only a psychiatrist can unravel the motivations underlying the Buffalo News' love affair with contraceptive family planning and coercive population control measures. Editorial after editorial (e.g. 7/13/96) is seen to promote the easy availability of contraceptives, to defend a woman's so-called right to abort her child (Pat Swift's column "Womanscope" is also relentless in its advocacy of the worst aspects of radical feminism), and to engage in outrageous propaganda for Federal and state legislation that only assists in destroying normal and healthy family life.

Is it only incidental to the Buffalo News' editorial policy that the "world's richest man" Warren E. Buffet (also known as "Mr. Population Control") is also Chairman of the Buffalo News? It is Mr. Buffet's "Foundation" that heavily funds dozens of Planned Parenthood's "family planning" affiliates and groups promoting classroom sex education, birth control and sterilization, abortion, and overpopulation hysteria, and has even given money to "Catholics For A Free Choice" in the effort to divide Catholics from their Church.

Working at both international and national levels, the "Buffet Foundation" together with other anti-natalist organizations seeks to impose a false lifestyle against the truth of human sexuality and to arouse false fears of "the threat of over-population" in order to entrench its anti-life mentality. The recent Vatican document "Ethical and Pastoral Dimensions of Population Trends" does much to expose the population myths underlying the ideological extremism of zealous population controllers.

It is quite interesting to observe the international network of wealthy organizations which presently direct their efforts to impose a contraceptive imperialism on the under-developed nations and thus diverting attention from the desperate need of governments to change those collectivistic political and economic policies that contribute to scarcity, hunger, famine, poverty, and waste of human resources. There is also the serious plunging of birth rates in the "developed" countries which now seriously endanger future economic growth, security, and progress.

Future students of the population control movement will doubtless find that Buffalo News' editorials can serve as a classic case study in the determined manipulation of public opinion by a minority with elite connections and who seek to use governmental power to promote a highly controversial (and immoral) social agenda.

About Dr. James Likoudis
James Likoudis is an expert in Catholic apologetics. He is the author of several books dealing with Catholic-Eastern Orthodox relations, including his most recent "The Divine Primacy of the Bishop of Rome and Modern Eastern Orthodoxy: Letters to a Greek Orthodox on the Unity of the Church." He has written many articles published by various religious papers and magazines.
He can be reached at:  jameslikoudis1@gmail.com, or visit  Dr. James Likoudis' Homepage