THE Irish Times religious affairs correspondent, Patsy McGarry, criticised me at length in these pages last Saturday for what I had written about the Tilson case of 1951, but he didn’t manage to find a single inaccuracy in what I said.

TODAY begins the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity - a time when Jesus Christ’s wish that his followers ‘may all be one’ is the focus of Christian prayer both within individual denominations and at ecumenical gatherings.

I HAVE been thinking lately about a tragedy that occurred a few months ago where I come from.