Rome pretty much leaves England, and most Western countries, alone to get on with it. For good or ill, but there we are. Even though, of course, national churches, as such, do not exist in Catholicism.
Whereas in the last couple of days, Africa, especially, has rather successfully exercised very direct control over the Church of England, and has sought to use that to intervene in America as well.
It has been a remarkable spectacle, and it is going to remain so.
When it comes to doctrine itself, I expect that the Africans have all the English synodical votes that they need in their back pockets.
The question of how this or that would play with them has been asked routinely for some years now, and the answer has been treated as determinative.
They have just taken that to a new level, but the phenomenon itself is quite well-established.
There is of course a theological rationale, whether or not one accepts it, for treating the Papacy as the touchstone of orthodoxy.
But I cannot see what the theological rationale for this is.
Beyond perhaps the very belated conversion of the most unlikely people to old school Third Worldism and Afrocentrism.
It is all astonishing to behold. As it will be for quite some time yet.
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