From Felicity Brokensha, Cape Town
Hurrah for quick-witted, succinct cartoons. Were it not for Conrad in The Southern Cross (January 14), I might have been permanently disturbed by the preposterous deductions made by the recent head of the supreme court of the Holy See, US Cardinal Raymond Burke, that is, that the decline in priestly vocations can be attributed to, inter alia, girl altar servers in a feminised Church. I may never have known the truth otherwise.
What fortunate Catholic readers we are to have our own publication, The Southern Cross, to communicate the news to us and fearlessly provide us with information.
No fear of blasphemy in Conrad. Perhaps if Charlie Hebdo had understood its wider readership, it may have brought the truth so freely available to all with greater sensitivity to its different interpreters.
In the violence that followed the publication of its cartoons, Christianity has lost out to secularity.
We are back in the eye-for-an-eye and a tooth-for-a-tooth barbarism.
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