Obviously, we would love to follow Tommy Robinson’s advice on the true meaning of Christmas in our north London Catholic parish church (C of E responds to Tommy Robinson’s carols event with ‘Christmas is for all’ message, 13 December).
Teeny problem though. Would we need to get rid of our Nigerian priests? Our Filipino altar servers? Our Nigerian readers? The African-Caribbean man who does the collections? Our admin staff from east Africa? And don’t even start me on all the Irish, Burmese, Congolese and Indian people who come to mass. Our local imam can always be relied on to attend our multifaith events – do we have to uninvite him, as well as our Jewish friends? And, dare I say it, we will be celebrating the birth of a Jew born in Palestine. Nollaig shona daoibh.
Dr Ronan Cormacain
Finsbury Park, London
