Madam, - Rarely does a priest come to the rescue of a brother bishop. It happened in Ireland recently. A well-known priest, Fr James Good, threw a theological life-line to a better-known bishop, Eamonn Casey. Each at different times and for distinct reasons had incurred ecclesiastical disfavour.
Fr Good, fortunately, has long been restored to the "liturgical honours list". Bishop Casey sadly not yet so. He may not celebrate Mass in public. There are no canonical reasons to the contrary of which I am aware. Those who are patronisingly termed "the simple faithful" find it no less difficult than I to justify this exclusion.
Must the Church of St Patrick defer invariably to the "Petrine Genuflection"? - Yours, etc,
FRANK COMERFORD C.S.Sp., Kimmage Manor, Dublin 12.