In her column (24 May), Catherine Pepinster suggested that the Pope should perhaps change the form of address for priests from “Father” to “Teacher” – as it might be a way of countering the putative infantilisation of the laity. Might I suggest that archaic honorific titles, such as “my lord” for bishops, “your grace’” for archbishops and “your eminence” for cardinals, should be dispensed with at the same time? Catholic priests in England were not always addressed as “Father”; the nineteenth-century ultramontane movement forced priests to change their form of address from “Mr” to “Father” and introduced the so-called Roman collar – which is now worn as a “dog collar&rdqu