In his article on the Birmingham Men’s Mass (“Where all men are brothers”, 4 April) James Moran rightly mentions Bishop Barnes’ attack on the idea of the Real Presence in the Eucharist which he criticised as belief in magic. In his biography of his father (Ahead of his Age: Bishop Barnes of Birmingham, page 190) John Barnes relates that when the bishop encountered the chaplain of a nearby convent, and, wondering if he should know him, asked who he was, he received the re