Letter: Pizza with principle

Wednesday 07 October 1998 00:02 BST

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Sir: From David Usborne's article "Lifting the lid on the pizza man", Tom Monaghan comes across as an "ultra-conservative", eccentric, right-wing, fanatical and dogmatic Catholic. Few details of all this are given, but in particular his extremism is typified by his opposition to abortion.

The pro-life, anti-abortion position is not an extreme, right-wing or marginal Catholic view. It represents and reflects mainstream Catholic teaching and belief. The mainstream Catholic argument is that abortion, involving as it does the killing of unborn babies, is wrong.

CHRIS WHITTAM

Peterborough

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