Readers' Blog: The Church devalues the meaning of ‘community’

Don Cahalane stated in his letter (March 26) concerning the modernising of the Catholic Church that “the Church at its most basic is a community of believers”!

But this important word, ‘community’, rhythms with another important word, communication’. Now I consider that all members of any worthwhile community must hold some discussion between each other about issues pertinent to the purposes and existence of the their own community. If they do not do this regularly, they must (despite their outward appearances) eventually become strangers to each other.