Conscience and the church

Madam, - That I should live to see the day! Joseph F

Madam, - That I should live to see the day! Joseph F. Foyle (February 6th), whom I have always regarded as being in the conservative corner of the Irish Catholic Church, admitting he does not believe in hell!

Would not this dissent from church teaching put him in the category he previously called "sinning"? And will his subsequent reference to "painful transformation. . .after death" start a new discussion on whether the immaterial soul can suffer physical pain? The mind boggles; this correspondence has gone on too long! - Yours, etc,

W. J. MURPHY, Malahide,  Co Dublin.