Sir, - How ironic that your Religious Affairs Correspondent, Patsy McGarry, reported last Thursday that the European Vocations Service would host its annual conference over the weekend in Maynooth, while elsewhere in your paper, Soline Valinel wrote eloquently about the Women's Ordination Worldwide conference in Belfield, also at the weekend.
Imagine, two conferences within a stone's throw of each other, on the same weekend and - whether anyone likes it or not - on the same subject!
But let all at both conferences take heart: the prayer of Jesus was that all would be one, and when that comes about - as it surely must - the women who are giving their lives (amid extraordinary difficulties) to trying to respond to their call to priestly ministry will not be found wanting.
And what a great conference will then be jointly held! - Yours, etc.,
Betty Maher, Vernon Grove, Rathgar, Dublin 6.