I read with interest Fr Joe Borg’s comments about the leadership of the Catholic Church. No one person can be held responsible for the Church’s decline.

Overall leadership by example is required by everybody, from priests to archbishops. This is not in evidence, as lethargy in worship is witnessed weekly.

Tradition can have its advantages; however, it has many downsides as well.

This is especially the case when parishioners feel it is a duty to have to attend Mass and take part in the Eucharist each time.

Read a passage of the Bible quietly alone and it will take a new personal meaning.

It appears many do their own thing during the week without much evidence of God’s spirit in their lives. When we think we are alone, God is watching.

The Church shows its weakness by failing to condemn excessive drinking and riotous behaviour during feasts where rivalry, rather than love, is often seen exercised.

Do the saints really appreciate their names being associated with such feasts? Do you think, for example, St Julian, would like to be honoured by seeing hunters firing blanks into the sky at the end of the month?

God is our creator, sustainer and judge. Perhaps our Church leaders and indeed politicians should fear God and not man, which is a snare in itself.

By doing so, and showing such an example, they would truly be seen as God’s ambassadors and gain respect worthy of their calling.