WHY is there such furore over the recent speech by Pope Benedict XV1 in which he referred to remarks from Emperor Manual II Paleologos of Byzantine.

YOUR editorial (Irish Examiner, April 20) refers to “the controversy raging following the concelebration of Easter Mass by Catholic priests and a Church of Ireland clergyman in Drogheda”.

REV GERARD GARRETT (Irish Examiner letters, May 18) is wrong when he says that “Crimen Sollicitationis (is) a Vatican document dealing principally with solicitation by priests in the course of confession.”

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.”

THE new Pope who, as Cardinal Ratzinger, was head the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - the office which ran the Inquisition in the Middle Ages.