LETTERS In all good faiths
Sir: Ferdinand Mount is right (`No pontifi- cation in this realm of England', 29 Jan- uary) to find it hard to believe that the con- version of the Duchess of Kent should prompt me to ask for Catholics `to have their churches back'. I have never said or written any such thing. I have always taken a perverse pride in the ugliness of most Catholic churches in England: no one would choose to worship in them unless impelled to do so by conviction.
Moreover, Catholic congregations are declining, as are the number of Catholic priests. Among those that remain, there is often to be found a zeal for 'reordering' church interiors to suit liturgical reform. As monuments to the cultural magnificence of our Catholic past, our pre-Reformation cathedrals and churches are safer in the hands of the Church of England.
Piers Paul Read
50 Portland Road, London W11
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