23 NOVEMBER 1996, Page 40

Below the belt

Sir: Paul Johnson is unwise to trade in insults against the Church of England (Let- ters, 9 November). If he stoops so low as to call it the Church of Sodom he might find that others might stoop so low as to call the Roman Catholic Church the Paedophile Church.

J.W. Melville

Oak Cottage, Oxborough, Kings Lynn, Norfolk