The Editor, Sir:

Many of us from time to time have criticised the Church as an institution, regardless of denomination, for being passive in the political atmosphere in Jamaica. Of course, there are some persons of 'splinter' sects and newer 'faiths' that are deeply mired in politics.

The approach to this problem depends on whether you see the Church as another social institution among the many others that are allied with politics. But the Church was not founded to be another social welfare institution, but to PREACH CHRIST CRUCIFIED, whether or not you are a believer.

It is in this latter context that I heartily applaud the Roman Catholic Bishop of Jamaica for his stand on precluding a deacon from dividing the flock by practising not the GOSPEL of the CHURCH, but of man and his divisions. Bishop Burke is in the tradition of that other great Jamaican, Percival Wlliam Gibson.

I am, etc.,

MIDDLETON WILSON

middletonwilson@bellsouth.net

Miami, Fl.

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