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Friday, March 17, 2023

Pope Francis is no champion of women | Brief letters

The Catholic church | Spade confusion | Junior doctors’ pay | Pardon my English | T-shirt slogans

Your editorial (13 March) claims that Pope Francis champions “the marginal, peripheral and excluded”. His church does not champion women, however, denying them equality and fertility control and refusing their participation as priests. You say that the pope emphasises “mercy over judgment”. What is the sin here? Who are the sinners?
Michele Roberts
London

• Despite Dave Young describing the difference between a shovel and a spade (Letters, 14 March), I’m confused. In Thursday’s crossword a clue asks: Dug up by a shovel (6). The answer is Spaded. Dave, help us out here please.
Peter Stewart
London

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