Reformation no Brexit

sir – Giles Fraser’s article (“We survived our first Brexit, we can do it again”, Comment, August 14) seems to trivialise those (on both sides of the debate) who care about the implementation of Brexit, as well as the impact of the English Reformation.

Communion is something Christians should and do care deeply about. It is not about ignoring rules and sneakily receiving the Eucharist like naughty schoolchildren getting the nod from a schoolmaster.

Pope Francis’s gift of a crosier to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, was not a tacit recognition of intercommunion, nor of Anglican ordination; it was a recognition of the reality that the Archbishop shepherds a flock of Christians, just as I would hope my fellow Catholics would not simply see Giles Fraser, in his words, as a “confused layman who likes wearing a dress”, but as someone who faithfully ministers to the people of his parish.

Five hundred years on, the English Reformation remains deeply upsetting to all who want genuine unity and communion between Christians. Rev Owen Gresty

Tamworth, Staffordshire