Chris Larkman (Letters, 16 August), suggests that Pope Francis should consider the future of the Congregation for Divine Worship. He very obviously is already doing so. Alone among the Congregations its top officials have not been confirmed in office, but after 18 months still enjoy only provisional approval. Its increasingly bizarre attempts at rubrical micromanagement are regularly ignored, not least by Francis himself, who not only washes women’s feet but is at ease with concelebrants who dispense with chasubles, and one looks in vain for a Communion plate at his Masses. Parishes follow this lead, and also ignore totally impractical edicts which forbid eucharistic ministers from purifying chalices after Communion, or occupying a priest’s “sacred space” in the sa