Sir, – I am glad to read to Sr Eileen Linehan’s letter (September 12th) wishing Catholics were “Free to voice their present concerns regarding the church”. It is primarily the responsibility of all the People of God to replace fear with the freedom of the daughters and sons of God.
We, as Catholics, have allowed ourselves to be cowed down into servility by structures where oppressive power has been gradually concentrated into the hands of the Vatican few, headed by the Pope. Fr Flannery has been unafraid in voicing these concerns ; he has suffered greatly because of the silence and fear of the rest of us Catholics. – Yours, etc,
BRENDAN BUTLER,
The Moorings,
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Malahide,
Co Dublin.