I was most surprised to find Peter Stanford’s column about Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger (“On her laptop ‘Mrs Bishop’ has pictures of herself in full episcopal robes”, 15 November) in The Tablet which has a high reputation for accurate reporting. How sad that no one thought of checking whether her story was true! To begin with, Antonio Braschi (who is supposed to have “ordained” her) is not a Catholic bishop. He was ordained a Catholic priest in Argentina but chose to leave the Church to found his own independent Church while still a priest. He was “ordained” bishop by a bishop of the “Free Catholic Church” in Munich years after he had left the Catholic Church. Moreover, the Austrian branch of We Are Church immediately distan