LETTERS Cardinal sin
Sir: Perhaps I am not the only one among your Catholic readers, of whom you must have at least several, to find offensive the hideous caricature of a pope, a cardinal and a bishop on the cover of The Spectator of 25 April?
The article that it illustrates ('Hume? A Czech? Or an undry Martini?', 25 April) is quite its match: a grotesque distortion of reality, full of fashionable platitudes, already heard many times in the more or less. remote past, about the end of the Catholic Church as we know it; where, tellingly enough, defrocked monks, now happily — one hopes — married, opine about celibacy and where interventions from Rome are called 'interferences'.
Isn't it intriguing that The Spectator of 1998 should resemble Punch of 1870 so much?
If our witty Mr Brown entirely believes scurrilous stories, one should pity him because, obviously, he is not a gentleman.
On the other hand, perhaps, one should not judge him too severely; he simply does not know what he is talking about, as proven by his jokes about serious matters like charging one's conscience with a mor- tal sin by wishing somebody else — any- body else — dead, and the Devil's harvest. P. Ferranti
12 Philbeach Gardens, London SW5
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