To the Editor:

I enjoyed reading “Feminist Pilgrims” by Paul V. Mankowski, S.J. [June] on some of the recent absurdities in Nicaragua and the predictable reaction by some North American observers from the loony Left.

I am a product of Jesuit education and I had despaired of finding any diversity recently among Jesuits. Actually, I think the whole situation cries out for the resurrection of another Catholic writer, Evelyn Waugh, but then he might have trouble getting published in Jesuit publications.

Thomas M. Comerford
Dallas, Texas

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To the Editor:

Paul V. Mankowski refers to . . . Achish the king of Gath (I Samuel 221:12 ff) whom he tags “an upcountry Palestinian chief.” Gath was in Philistia, the original Palestine, an area about fifty miles long on the Mediterranean and about twelve miles wide, including Gaza and Ashdod. Those “Palestinians” were not Arabs, however. They were refugees from Greece, . . . who after the fall of the Mycenean cities displaced the local Canaanites. Achish, the “up-country Palestinian,” should not be confused with today’s Palestinian.

Sue Golden Lerner
Jerusalem, Israel