Action call on ecumenism

WITH regard to the ecumenical Mass held in Drogheda on Easter Sunday, demonstrating just how complex and delicate the issues are, you write (Irish Examiner, April 20), using a broad brush: “It is believed to be the first time since the 16th century Reformation that a Protestant minister has celebrated a Catholic Mass.”

Many, if not most, Anglicans — members of the Church of Ireland, for example — regard themselves as Catholic. Not as Roman Catholics, of course, but as part of the broader ‘Catholic’ Church.

Many Anglicans tend to prefer the term ‘priest’ to ‘minister’ — the latter term being more appropriate in other, more ‘Protestant’ churches.