Isn’t it time all church leaders showed true Christian spirit?

It is hard to understand the mentality of those who have made a fuss over Fr Iggy O’Donovan inviting the Reverend Michael Graham, a Church of Ireland Minister, to join in the celebration of Mass on Easter Sunday.

He announced that the gesture was “symbolic and once-off for the moment”.

“For the moment” was what might be called a pregnant phrase in the same sense as a pregnant pause. The Archbishop of Armagh Seán Brady has ordered an inquiry into the Mass, which he claimed was not held in the interest of “true ecumenism”. If he knows that why has he called for the inquiry? It looks dangerously like he has already prejudged the whole thing.