Fr Tom Grufferty (Letters, 19 April) deplored the lack of an explicitly Catholic element in the recent state visit to Britain of the Irish President. He suggested that a visit to Westminster Cathedral should have been included. On the contrary; Southwark Cathedral should have been a “pit stop” for the President because, when Terence MacSwiney, the mayor of Cork, died on hunger strike in Brixton Prison on 25 October 1920, Cardinal Bourne refused to receive his body at Westminster Cat