His Holiness, Pope Francis

PP.
00120 Via del Pellegrino

Citta del Vaticano

Dear Pope Francis:

I do not know how to begin this letter, so I will just let you know what is happening, in general, with the faculty in Higher Education here in the United States, as in the rest of the world; I will then comment on the particular case that has brought me to ask you for your much needed intervention.

As a person raised in the Catholic tradition, but lately as someone who has been losing faith, I ask you to help me restore it, especially after the disillusion I feel. I have witnessed outright inaction and at times even harmful interventions from entities associated with the Catholic Church here in the United States, purporting against its social doctrine.

My name is Ana Maria Fores Tamayo, and I have been working part-time for a Catholic newspaper in…