Sir, – Clearly someone forgot to inform Daniel O’Connell, the acknowledged political leader of Ireland’s Roman Catholic majority in the first half of the 19th century, that: “Active membership in Freemasonry by a member of the faithful is prohibited, because of the irreconcilability between Catholic doctrine and Freemasonry” (“Vatican confirms ban on Catholics becoming Freemasons”, World, November 16th). – Yours, etc,
TONY MURRAY,
Fairview,
Dublin 3.