I reference to the news item entitled 'Are students losing their religion?', (The Sunday Times, June 28) in which it was stated that some students, while claiming to be Catholic, do not believe in the resurrection of Christ.

I would like to quote Mgr Cormac Burke, who is both a civil lawyer and a canon lawyer, as quoted in Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopaedia of Catholic Doctrine:

"To dissent from the teaching of the Church in any important matter of faith or morals is to separate oneself from Christ, to lose one's communion with him, to violate, nullify and lose one's Catholic identity."

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