Just over a year ago my niece died of leukemia, she was not quite two. The vicar from the local church (my brother and sister-in-law live in a very small village) put a note through their door saying that they shouldn’t be angry at God.

My mother died last month, and perhaps the biggest shock we got was discovering that there is apparently an entire stratum of parasites who spend their days combing the local paper’s death notices to locate grieving families to whom they can try to flog vile evangelical tat.

Thousands of people are dead as a result and the world is little further forward (better of without Saddam to be sure, but that’s a minute advantage compared to other losses).

Now the nausiating Catholic church are making big statements about how wonderful this conversion is. They’re welcome to him.

I’m sorry for your family’s loss, Chris, please take some comfort in knowing that the world isn’t completely full of assholes.