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Madam, – Thank you for publishing Mary Condren’s excellent article “Latest Vatican document is final straw for women” (Opinion, July 26th). Sad to say, the same illogical attitudes still prevail among the traditionalists of the Church of England, although they were voted down in the recent debate on women bishops at the General Synod in York earlier this month.