I wish to add my voice to that of Professor Sarah Coakley and others (“Academics urge Jesuits not to give in to fear over Heythrop”, News from Britain and Ireland, 22 August). In 1997 I was completing doctoral studies in patristics at Rome’s Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum. Because I wanted to research and write under the supervision of Anthony Meredith SJ, I transferred to Heythrop. This is but one among many testaments to the college’s international appeal and reputation (to say nothing of its highly respected The Heythrop Journal).As Coakley rightly asserts, no one else does what Heythrop does and no one else will. Even the closure of Stonyhurst, which I am not advocating, would do far less damage to the Christian intellectual culture of Britain than the cl