I cannot speak for other signatories, but my reason for signing the letter to which your correspondents make objection (Letters, 21 March) is simple. I do not see the logic of what high authorities now propose. The authors of the lineamenta of the forthcoming synod reiterate the teaching of the Church on the indissolubility of marriage. But they cannot eliminate the disparity between that teaching and the change of eucharistic practice put forward in their document’s pages.The married couple and their children constitute, in the words of the Second Vatican Council, the “domestic Church”. In that smallest yet most foundational of all Churches, the nuptial relation between husband and wife embodies in sacramental form the bond between Christ and his Church-Bride. How, then