Christian Brothers went to Uruguay to educate children of the elite

I READ Donal Lenihan’s feature ‘Holding out for a hero’ (October 19) about the plane that came down in the Andes in October 1972 with a Uruguayan rugby team on board.

It says that “all were Catholic”. What a strange comment. Would it have made any difference if they had been any other religion?

And it says “Uruguay had descended from a relatively prosperous Latin American country into an increasingly disaffected society with dangerous urban terror groups” when the Irish Christian Brothers went to Montevideo in 1955 to open the school from which the rugby team came.