I must take issue with Peter Stanford’s claim of a current crisis at the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham (column, 23 August). Where has he been, suggesting that nothing much goes on outside of August? What a distortion of the truth. The pilgrimage season, far from going into decline, has lengthened in recent years. Even in the days when Walsingham was much more elitist and regarded as the private preserve of an extreme Anglo-Catholic minority, parish pilgrimages ran from May to late October. Since then, through charismatic and inspiring administrators, its appeal has broadened in both churchmanship and age range. While not compromising its worship and teaching, it now has a real family atmosphere.It has been claimed that during the Annual Youth Week up to 600 young people keep a vi