23 AUGUST 1968, page 26

Sir : I Am Surprised That Mr Peregrine Wors- Thorne

should stoop to such a banal and puerile attempt at satire in 'Adultery for adults' (9 August), I am not surprised that the defenders of our Pope's position have had to abandon......

The Case For The Encyclical

Sir : In his defence of the Papal encyclical 'On the regulation of birth' (2 August) the Roman Catholic Bishop of Leeds rather ingenuously argues that the redistribution of......

Tired Ticket

Sir : Mr Peter Walker (16 August) commits the common error of claiming to support Conser- vatism in Britain whilst opposing it abroad. He sneers at the higher morality advocated......

Mod Apocalypse

Sir: Absent from one's native shores for nearly seven years now, one's early impression gained from the London papers—without positing any essential nexus between one's......

Lion Couchant

Sir : I was intrigued to learn from Mr Nicholas Davenport's article (16 August) that it is now possible to grade films that the public will go to the cinema for into three handy......

Common Prayer

Sir: In your issue of 16 August, Mr J. W. M. Thompson voices for me all the frustration people like me feel at the 'modernisation' of the Book of Common Prayer. No doubt, Mr......

Hail Biafra

Sir : It is interesting to note that your corre- spondent Mr Waugh has been persuaded that the inhabitants of Udi are 'minorities people' (2 August). This remark shows just how......

Adultery For Adults

Sir: We Catholics await another humorous article from Mr Peregrine Worsthorne, not this time about a hypothetical controversy in the Church (in which the liberals are fair game......

Air. K And The Junta

Sir: In a very interesting article (16 August) Mrs Helen Vlachos refers to the political pros- pects of Mr Karamanlis • and writes: 'His [Karamanlis's] future is linked with the......

Sir: As Is His Wont—and Albeit Satirical— Peregrine...

written (9 August) far the best article on the difficult subject of Humanae Vitae and got right to the heart of the matter. Congratulations! Marie-Louise de Zulueta Combe Row,......