Letter: Subsidiarity as preached by Rome
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: Malcolm Johnson claims that subsidiarity has been a central principle of the Roman Catholic church for many years (letter, 7 July). If so, why does that church not leave decisions about birth control to individual parents? That surely is an area in which personal autonomy should be supreme, based on the circumstances of a family.
If Rome is an example of subsidiarity in practice, our fathers in Brussels have a lot to learn.
Yours faithfully,
TIM RENTON
MP for Sussex Mid (Con)
House of Commons
London, SW1
7 July
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