The Church and change

The deluge of ill-informed comment on the Catholic Church’s actions in holding the line on its core teaching shows no signs of abating.

Rose O’Sullivan (Letters, Apr 19), or anyone raised as a Catholic, ought to know that the Church does not modify its teachings in line with the zeitgeist of any age or culture.

Had it done so it could not and would not have survived. It would have gone the way of Protestanatism with its ongoing fracturing and fragmentation. At some point it is reasonable to argue that fragmentation will become dissolution. That is why a growing number of Anglicans in the UK and in the US are continuing to enter the Roman Catholic Church.