Faint praise

Like the Rev John Cameron (Letters, 21 March) and Vivienne Stirling (10 April), I was surprised by the obituaries to Cardinal Keith O’brien which, frankly, damned him with faint praise.

Yes he was a sinner (aren’t we all?), but there was a marked contrast between his Christian charity in begging forgiveness to the end and that of his anonymous accusers, who had already utterly humiliated him by making their unsubstantiated allegations on the very day he was to travel to the Vatican for a Papal conclave.

The cardinal was a prince of the Catholic Church, yet a more approachable, humble or kind person one could not hope to meet.

JOHN V LLOYD Keith Place, Inverkeithing