Correspondence: Catholic ethos 3 Jaunary 2007 Dear SD, Congratulations on reviving the old socialist tradition of bashing the clerics. I thought you would like to know that the Bishop of Dromore, Dr John McAreavey, defines Catholic ethos just as you do. In a statement today he complains that plans to set up a single schools authority would remove the power to hire and fire teachers and this would dilute the Catholic ethos. The Bishop says that CCMS is better than a single government authority because; “We are faced with a choice between a centralist style of government and more democratic structures”. I haven’t been able to stop laughing since at the idea of the CCMS as a democratic structure and I thought I would share the joke with you. Yours in solidarity, Red
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