Ratzinger on pluralism

Sir, - Terence Crotty is perfectly correct when he says it is not the duty of the Roman Catholic church to preach Anglicanism…

Sir, - Terence Crotty is perfectly correct when he says it is not the duty of the Roman Catholic church to preach Anglicanism, but I think he is putting just a little bit of spin on it when he says that "Sunday after Sunday, Catholics profess a belief in a Church that is one, holy, catholic and apostolic".

In this sentence, it is important to note that it is the word "Church" which carries the upper-case initial, not the word "catholic", which here carries its neutral sense and simply means "universal", not Roman Catholic. - Yours, etc.,

David Smith, Harmonstown Road, Artane, Dublin 5.