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I am sorrowful to see situation Catholic Church finds itself in

Last year I entered a short story in a competition to raise funds for the Royal Hospital For Sick Children, Edinburgh.

The subject was to be about anything that connected a child with illness. It gave me the chance to set down an account of my experience, as a child of seven, in the 1940s.

Although I am an atheist, I am sorrowful to see the situation in which the Roman Catholic church finds itself; the troubles being heaped upon the heads of priests and nuns and the loss of good reputation ("Church in crisis", The Herald, February 26 and Letters, February 26 & 27).

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