Cathedral no place to sell rosary beads

WITH reference to your report on the sale of rosary beads in the souvenir shop at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin (January 23), these items are not commonly used in Anglican worship here and I would have thought there was already a sufficient number of other outlets available in the capital.

I can understand that Dean Robert MacCarthy has a large, old building to maintain at great cost, probably well beyond the means of the regular parishioners, and that some degree of entrepreneurship is therefore required.

Rosary beads appear to be confined to use by Catholics and could probably be sold more appropriately in places where they will actually be used.