Joanna Moorhead hits the nail right on the head when she points out that marriage exists as a concept within the Vatican, rather than as a lived reality (22 November). And how easy it is to be high-minded and prescriptive about concepts, especially those we do not have personal experience of – witness the near universal contempt currently for anyone who holds political power.But it is the consequences for those who cannot live up to the Church’s ideal that should trouble us here. Those who “bail out” (to use Ms Moorhead’s phrase) of the priesthood or religious life are not barred from the sacraments, nor is Communion withheld from those who are in prison – could any of us imagine such a thing? Quite rightly our prison chaplains work very hard to bring t