Delighted to be consulted on the vital issue of family life and the Catholic Church (Letters, 23 November), I settled down to answer the survey, only to find myself dumbfounded by the questions I was being asked. A graduate of both Cambridge and Oxford universities and a practising doctor, I found myself totally excluded by the phraseology and assumed theological knowledge of the consultation. It is essential that a truly effective and representative consultation takes place. The relevant authorities should supply urgently a plain English version of the consultation, unless of course they do not really want to know what ordinary Catholics think and feel about their lives and their faith.(Dr) Angela Jones, Appleford, OxfordshireIf, as seems likely, the language in which the questions are w