The skull of St Thomas More is said to be decaying - how much should we care?

Montreal-based writer Anna Farrow argues that any deterioration of the major relic ought to be taken very seriously indeed

I come from a family of lawyers, more specifically, on my paternal side, Catholic lawyers. Great-grandfather, grandfather, great-uncles; they all practised law in what was then the small town of San Diego in California.

My paternal uncle, Fr Tom Whelan, was born in the August of 1935, almost three months to the day after Pope Pius XI canonised St Thomas More and St John Fisher. Tom was the second born son, my father the first. The eldest, who became a lawyer, was named for his father, Vincent, but Tom, who became a priest, was named for Thomas More.