Please allow me to express my warm approval of Sr Fran Martin DC (Letters, 18 April) for her response to Sara Maitland with regard to the 153 fishes so carefully counted by St John in the final chapter of his gospel. Whereas Maitland had asked, “Who cares how many fish there were?” Sr Fran stoutly responds, “I care”, though she didn’t count them.  All the same, to her I would retort, not just “I care”, but also “I want to count them”, not merely as collective “fish” but rather as “individual fishes”, as St John, being a Jew and a fisherman, would have counted them. As for their precise number, I have it on the highest authority (that of my professor of Hebrew) that St John would have counted the fishes in a