Church teaching is not constant

IN response to Oliver Broderick’s letter headlined ‘More liberal church won’t win converts’ (Irish Examiner, May 21), I wish to say just this:

In my letter (‘Conservative Catholics need to think again,’ Irish Examiner, May 17), I was not offering a prescription for how the church might go about attracting new members by introducing a new liberal code of ethics.

In fact I did not even use the word liberal.