Cardinal writes to Wilson

CARDINAL HEENAN has written to the Prime Minister to express his concern about the memorandum from the Department of Health and Social Security barring anti-abortion doctors from some hospitals.
Mgr Frederick Miles. the Cardinal's secretary, said the letter had been acknowledged this month, and when a reply came the correspondence would he published.
The Cardinal did not consider his own letter should be made public until the reply had been received, Mgr Miles said.
Cardinal Heenan has said the Church was wrong in not taking a more public stand against abortion when the 1967 Act was first proposed, and is determined this shall not happen again.
The Editor writes: Dr Thomas Duffy, chairman of the Croydon and District Branch of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, last week addressed an open letter to Cardinal Heenan.
Part of the letter was published in the lead story of last week's Catholic Herald in the belief that a copy had been sent to the Cardinal.
In fact, the Cardinal was not sent a copy, and our story gave the false impression that the Cardinal was disinclined to comment on the letter. The Editor takes full responsibility for this misunderstanding and regrets any embarrassment caused to the Cardinal.
The letter has now been sent to Cardinal Heenan.