Spare us the mocking attacks on religion

MANY of your readers will be saddened to see a formerly fine newspaper descend to the level of the gutter press in recent times, with its frequent poisonous attacks on religion, and on the Catholic faith in particular.

Much of this anti-Catholic bigotry seems to be concentrated on your back page. On Good Friday, Suzanne Harrington treated us to an article mocking that most sacred of Christian feast days, the day on which Christ died.

A few days earlier (feast of St Joseph), Kevin Barry succeeded in writing a poisonous paragraph referring to “religious mania” and “Catholicism, several strains of which linger to this day”.