Re Grant Kaplan’s editorial on Catholic identity, Dr. Kaplan asks us to refrain from asking bad questions and encourages us to ask good ones. How do we distinguish between the two? In a book I read on Talmud, which are learned exegeses on the Mosaic Law, the author contends that any question of the Law is permitted as long as it answers two preceding questions: 1.) What is the question? 2.) What has the question got to do with the subject? Once these two issues have been adequately addressed, the questioner may then rightfully proceed. I find this approach useful in my own attempts to think critically, and I recommend it to others.
Sincerely,
Roger White,City College
