Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from J.P. Walshe, Ambasciata D’Irlanda, Roma. Refers to the ignorant article in the Sunday Independent by Liam Skinner on the Columban Chapel; the health of the Holy Father; the political situation in which the Christian Democrats are showing up very badly; La Lira, Mayor of Florence, who is the modern day St. Francis regarding his concern for the poor.