Madam, - I was quite bemused to see, accompanying an article in last Saturday's Irish Times about a rift between the American Episcopalian Church and the Episcopal Church of America, a photograph, not of a Protestant primate, but of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.
The explanation for this apparent anomaly was that Cardinal Ratzinger had sent a letter of support to the Episcopalians in their stand against the appointment of a homosexual bishop to the Episcopal Church.
Is this the same Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger who unconditionally denounced the authenticity of "other" Christian churches (those which were not specifically Roman Catholic) in an encyclical issued just three years ago?
And, if so, why is he worried? - Yours, etc.,
D.K. HENDERSON, Castle Avenue, Clontarf, Dublin 3.