Adam Trimingham is to be congratulated on his balanced and forthright encapsulation of the problems of the Church.

Perhaps Cormac Murphy O'Connor might ponder upon the good sense written by our "Sage".

No such hope, however, for Dr Rowan Williams, whom Adam so wittily dubbed "the wild and woolly Archbishop of Canterbury - a man inclined to burble for Britain". Alas, I listened to Dr Williams's Dimbleby lecture at the close of the year, surely a mixture of intellectual gobbledegook, demolished effectively by Matthew Parris in The Times a few days later.

Thank you, Adam.

-Leslie Frizell, l.r.frizell@bun.com