Your leading article (“Winning friends and souls”, 4 January) ends with the question, “What if collegiality was not only the right principle for the internal structure of the world episcopacy … but also for organising each diocese and parish? What reserves of spiritual energy might thereby be released?”The answer is that our Church would be more whole and immense energies would be flowing from the gifts of nature and grace spread all around in the community – energies that for now are under-used or unused.Let me, however, press the enquiry: what if the Western Church opened its mind and heart to the words of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, who in his speech on 30 October 2008, to the Synod of Bishops in Rome, stated: “In having today the pr