Sir, - Wouldn't it be a telling gesture for the churches to mark this first Christmas of the millennium by acknowledging the new "wise men and women" who have come to us from other cultures by including an image of their offspring in the crib. As our Christian tradition has it, "Christ comes to us in the form of the stranger". - Yours, etc.,
Hugh O'Donnell, Heywood, Ballinakill, Co Laois.