Dear Editor: I always enjoy Father Robert Lauder’s column in The Tablet. A recent column brought back many memories for me of a priest who taught English at St. Francis College in the late 1940s and 1950s. Father Gerard M. Murray introduced his students to Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh and the Catholic novel. Much like Father Lauder, he intimated that they present a profoundly deep understanding of human nature.

Subsequently, my reading of “The Heart of the Matter” and “Brideshead Revisited” complemented my other studies in literature. I went on to teaching high school English.

Thus, Father Lauder’s writing always reverberates in my mind and brings back the fond memories of Father Murray’s gems of literary acumen.

JOHN J. SCIBELLI
Rosedale