24 MAY 1957, Page 15

CATHOLICISM

SIR,—Is it not strange that no comment has been made on the pronouncement of the RC Bishop of Clifton the other day that they 'will not rest until every man, woman and child in this country becomes a Catholic'?

Last week there was an advertisement in a well- known Sunday paper of the Catholic Enquiry Centre saying that the Church has 'satisfying answers to the great questions of life' and that 13,000 joined them this year; they ask : 'Why do so many become Catholics?' and one would suggest it is because they are ignorant. We sent a protest 'to another

well- known paper (with stamp for return if not used), but it was neither printed nor returned, which almost makes us wonder if the RCs have control in this, as they have in the US (according to several books on this subject).

Probably the matter is not important, but all the same a rejoinder should be made.—Yours faith- fully, B. C. MARGHERITTA Englefield, South Cerney, Cirencester