Madam, - With regard to Fr James Good's clarification that he wasn't exiled to the Turkana Desert in Kenya by Bishop Lucey in the aftermath of his criticism of Humanae Vitae(July 30th) it should be made clear, however, that he was requested by Bishop Lucey to withdraw what he said. Having refused to do so he was banned from preaching and hearing confession in the Cork diocese. When he later went to Turkana it was somewhat inevitable that people would put one and one together and come up with poor arithmetic thus giving birth to the "exiled" myth.
It emerged much later on that the ban on Fr Good wasn't written down, suggesting that Bishop Lucey's action was a required action for Dr Lucey as bishop to take but that he only performed the minimum censure. - Yours, etc,
GARRY O'SULLIVAN, Editor, The Irish Catholic, Bluebell, Dublin 12.