Gamaal As’ad responds to an article by a Catholic priest in last week’s Rose El-Youssef magazine which attacked the Coptic church, and in which the priest wrote amongst other things concerning the Egyptian Orthodox Church: "these people have transformed our sacred message into shouts and uproars. They wasted the role of reason with stupid, decaying ideas. Theirs is running after lust, arrogance, love of leadership, selfishness, jealousy and ignorance. They have been blinded from their wisdom, their hearts and minds darken."