Sir, - Rev David O'Hanlon's autocratatic pronouncements on the subject of women's ordination (November 13th), oozing as they invariably are with paternalistic and pedantic superiority and condescension, are invaluable to those of us who favour the admission of women to a renewed ministry.
One might say of the anti-women lobby that with defenders like him, they hardly need opponents.
Despite his pompous protestations the subject obviously remains an open one - or, to borrow a phrase from another context: "They haven't gone away, you know!" - Yours, etc.,
Tony Burke, Abbey Park, Baldoyle, Dublin 13.