7 AUGUST 1993, Page 23

Papal bull

Sir: What nonsense Paul Johnson talks (And another thing, 31 July)! May another cradle Catholic from Lancashire of roughly Paul's age (I remember him at Oxford; blazing red hair and already prone to exag- gerate) assure your readers that Catholics are not 'closing ranks against the moral abomination of Brussels'? For one thing we are far too contumacious a people to 'close ranks' on anything beyond the essentials of our faith. For another, most Catholics I know are passionately pro-European. I'll try to remember Cash, Johnson and Rees- Mogg in my prayers and hope they see the light.

Mary Tuck

26 Wallingford Avenue, London W10