Noting your Quote of the Week (23 May) from Pope Francis contrasting a true mother “who does not flay her children” with a stepmother, who presumably does, Jenny Bryer (Letters, 6 June) suggests that when it comes to family relations, the celibate clergy “just doesn’t get it”.I (and no doubt others) flinch when Francis talks about certain issues, including women. Does this come from a macho streak deep in the Argentinian psyche?Yet this sort of comment is no reason for condemning the clergy who are men of independent views and some actually quite human. If Bryer had canvassed her local deanery I hope she would have found many of the brethren disappointed or more by Francis’ choice of images.When will the anti-celibate-clergy brigade recognise that nearl