“The next scandal” in the Roman Catholic Church, said Vincent Doyle, a psychotherapist in Ireland and the son of a Catholic priest, will expose celibate priests who have children (The New York Times, February 19).

The newspaper reported that “the children are the result of affairs involving priests and laywomen or nuns � others of abuse or rape”.

Doyle said that “the website for his support group, Coping International, has 50,000 users in 175 countries”. He was shocked when Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, the Vatican’s envoy to the United Nations in Geneva, told him: “You’re actually called ‘children of the ordained’.”