Letter: Priests broken at `boot camp'

Letter: Priests broken at `boot camp'

Sir: The priest writing anonymously in The Independent compares Stroud to an open prison to which he was "sent" by the Catholic Church. However, he became a priest voluntarily, he drove himself to Stroud voluntarily and as, anyone can at any time leave a Catholic religious institution, he apparently stayed voluntarily. Hardly a prison.

He then proceeds to declare that the Stroud day is filled with a suffocating religious devotion. It ill behoves a priest to resent time spent in prayer.

The Catholic church would be better off if priests like this resigned and we started to ordain good women.

FRANCIS BESWICK

Stretford

Greater Manchester