Causa finita est?
Sir: Professor Brogan's 'Table Talk' in your issue of 23 August is an example of the ten- dency that I pointed out in my letter of the previous week of academic Catholics to arrogate to themselves the right to prescribe how the church is to be governed.
They would do well first to set their own house in order. Whatever its faults, the Roman Curia has governed the universal church with reasonable efficiency over the centuries, whereas it seems that Professor Brogan and his fellow dons cannot even control a few unruly students. In the circumstances the rest of us may be for- given if we prefer 'the evil we know.'
As for Professor Brogan's remark that onanism should be kept to this -club, I cannot, for the moment, think of any meaning for this other than a scurrilous one. I hope I am mis- taken.
R. L. Travers Army and Navy Club, Pall Mall, London SW1
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