I cannot find myself in any kind of judicial mode with regard to Cardinal Keith O’Brien, unlike your distinguished correspondents (Letters, 4 April). But in an environment that your correspondents in Durban, Douai and London N4 are so obviously ill prepared to understand, Scottish Catholics have to live daily with his activities, both personally and in the community, the latter point being very important in a country where identification of another’s religion can be more important than the practise of one’s own. Cardinal O’Brien may well have confirmed the deepest suspicions of other religions in Scotland about Romanism well into the foreseeable future. Even that lifetime burden, which it will be, pales into insignificance beside the impact of the Cardinal O’