I POINTED OUT (Irish Examiner letters, April 27) that “by means of the 1962 document Crimen Sollicitationis, the Vatican instructed Catholic bishops around the world to cover up cases of clerical sexual abuse or risk being thrown out of the church.”

REV GERARD GARRETT (Irish Examiner letters, May 4) wrote: “Crimen Sollicitationis was not sent to every bishop in the world and, in fact, many of them didn’t even hear of it until 2001.”