GEMMA DOHERTY,
Madam, - I have cried and raged listening to many stories in the media over the past couple of weeks - hearing people who have been so abused by priests, and women who have given their children up for adoption because it was "wrong" and "bad" to become pregnant outside marriage. A shame. Something to be hidden away.
All this pain and anguish because the Catholic Church does not recognise the normality and sacredness of our sexual energy. No, it teaches repression of this holy energy. Let us remember that all this rhetoric is man-made and used to have power over people.
Let us now stand up and tell these moralists to get their hands off our children, our spirituality and our sexuality. - Yours, etc.,
GEMMA DOHERTY, Crozon Downs, Sligo.