Madam, - Heidi Good's suggestion (December 15th) that mature Christians, of either gender, should simply shop around until they find a sect sweet enough to tell them that, yes, indeed, God does now allow what they had already decided to do anyway is an extraordinary new take on discipleship. Her claim that God calls both women and men "to all forms of ministry" is patently false. There are no male mothers. - Yours, etc.,
Father DAVID O'HANLON, Parochial House, Kentstown, Navan, Co Meath.