Spirit guides

You rightly mock Joe Power, a psychic medium who believes in the supernatural and that humans can communicate with dead people (Opinion, 6 August).

Will you be adopting a similar editorial line when the Pope visits Scotland in September en route to beatifying the late Cardinal Newman, who has apparently "interceded" in human affairs from beyond the grave in response to a specific request?

Doesn't advertising the Pope's visit also risk bringing "more of the gullible and the bereaved" to the door of snakeoil salesmen such as Joe Power?

Or are you just confirming the old adage that one man's spirituality is another man's belly laugh?

ALISTAIR McBAY

Lawmuirview

Methven, Perth