While it is disconcerting to have our story told so publicly, I appreciate your June 20 article "They take faith to the street." I do, however, wish to emphasize a point very important to us.

Our entering full communion with the Roman Catholic Church was not a rejection of our Protestant roots. While we wholeheartedly embrace our brothers and sisters and the deep and rich traditions, teachings and practices of Catholicism, we continue to value our relationships with and the witness of our various Protestant brothers and sisters, including Baptists, Quakers, Methodists, Episcopalians, Mennonites, Presbyterians and others. We join with Jesus in praying that all his disciples might be one.

We are also well aware of people who faithfully live out much of the essence and substance of Jesus' life and teaching but who choose language and symbols different from those of Christianity. Perhaps Jesus was referring to these when he said, I have other sheep which are not of this sheep pen.

Scott Bass

Nazareth House Catholic Worker

Raleigh