Sir, – Like Gerard Burns (December 3rd ), I have attended weekly Masses, in my case in Dublin and Wexford, without hearing any reference whatsoever to the Pope's survey. The website of the Irish Bishops' Conference has just a user-unfriendly reference to the Vatican website with the need for further exploration to reach the survey itself.
By contrast, the website of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales has prominent and substantial material on this matter, as well as the text of the survey itself. Is it the case that whereas the views of Irish Catholics can be presumed as always to accord with those of the Irish bishops, without the need for consultation, the views of English and Welsh Catholics are by contrast worth an independent canvass? – Yours, etc,
JOHN A KEHOE,
Roselawn Road,
Castleknock,
Dublin 15.