Sir, - Nuala O'Faolain is perfectly correct, and Fr Tom Stack (July 27th) is in error. To this day, I well remember hearing the very words "Outside the Church, there is no redemption" at Christian Doctrine class, and running home in tears to my Protestant mother with the awful news that she was to be damned for all eternity.
Splendid woman that she was, she succeeded in calming my childish fears without denigrating Catholic teaching.
Remarkably, although she lived to over 90 years of age, in all that time I never heard her say a word against Catholic teaching, although she remained strongly attached to her own faith.
What dreadful times they were! - Yours, etc., Desmond O'Kennedy,
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