IN response to the letter from Pat Swords headlined ‘Pope’s wrong move on giving out communion’ (July 5), I must say I have never heard of anyone ever contracting germs from a priest while receiving holy communion on the tongue.

TERRORISM is a show of inhumane ferocity that will never be able to solve conflicts among human beings.

BY allowing same-sex couples legal recognition of their relationship, Northern Ireland and Britain have shown they are out of touch with the rest of the civilised world.

I COMMEND Pope Benedict XVI for his message in Germany calling on Christianity and Islam to work together to end terrorism which, he said, represented “the darkness of a new barbarism.”