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Passing on the faith has just got harder
SIR – I was a little heartened to read Tim Stanley’s article, “When Catholics feel betrayed” (July 27). It has become extremely difficult, as a practising Catholic mother of adult children, to defend the Church teachings in the light of the seemingly never-ending catalogue of clerical abuse against young children and students.













