As I read your article on Cardinal Keith O’Brien (“Unfinished business”, 28 March), my mind wandered to the gospel scene where the Scribes and Pharisees brought an adulteress to Jesus, demanding to know what should be done with her. Jesus’ response is, I believe, a model of what we should do in similar circumstances. Ignoring their loaded question, he simply wrote on the ground! What? We don’t know! But it is most doubtful that it was the fullest details of her misdemeanours. Shouldn’t all of us, The Tablet included, be following Jesus’ example? Did no one condemn you? Neither do I condemn you! Go and sin no more?Wilfrid, Cardinal Napier OFM, Durban, South AfricaYour Leader (“Abuse of power in the Church”, 28 March) seemed strikingly u
01 April 2015, The Tablet
In defence of Cardinal O’Brien
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