DECLAN KELLY,
Sir, - Your homilist F.MacE. (Thinking Anew, August 31st) said he was almost turned on end by reading the gospel story where Jesus says to the Canaanite woman: "It is not right to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs!".
His initial reaction was to think that Jesus showed "an unreasonable bigotry and that must constitute a sin!".
While graciously resolving the difficulty by suggesting that we do not know the wider context of the story, he leaves us with an unresolved question: What might a reasonable bigotry be, and what might its ramifications be for ecumenism and the Northern conflict? - Yours, etc.,
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DECLAN KELLY,
Whitechurch Road,
Dublin 14.