Clifford Longley (28 September) is right to suggest that women’s involvement in the Church, at whatever level, should be lay rather than clerical. The experience of women priests within the Anglican Church has not always been entirely positive, and I honestly cannot see why any Catholic woman in her right mind would want to join the clerical power structure. Women need to start thinking more creatively. Why should they not develop their own lay ministry, based around their homes and local communities, in which they could gather for prayer, reading the Scriptures, and maybe even the breaking of bread? Carol KellasCroydon, Surrey Clifford Longley has completely missed the point in proposing that the ordination of women would “perpetuate” clericalism and damage lay involv