Madam, – I must express my disappointment with the letter published under the heading “Theological Report” in last Thursday’s editions (November 19th) and to which I would have appended a comment had I been aware of it beforehand.
Signed by Fr Enda McDonagh, former professor of moral theology at St Patrick’s College Maynooth, and Fr James Keenan, founder professor of theology at Boston College in the US, it concerned a report I had written about a pamphlet of theirs prepared for the Catholic Progressio group and titled Instability, Structural Violence and Vulnerability: A Christian Response to the HIV Epidemic.
My report on the pamphlet was published in this newspaper on November 2nd last and is available in our archives for that date. Their account of that report in the letter referred to above was unfair, inaccurate and not a little disingenuous.
I would invite those interested to read the pamphlet at www.progressio.org.uk and the article referred to.
They can then arrive at their own judgement on the matter. – Yours, etc,