Ends Up

Yes, some of us have indeed seen where liberal theology ends up. We have also seen where something else ends up, and it is at least as pertinent.

All the incense in the world, all the birettas in the world, all the Plainsong in the world, all the holiness of life from the USPG mission fields to the old County Durham coal belt to Chad's Chapel, do not in themselves add up to Unity with the Successor of Peter.

And if you have spend all your time explaining why you are not a "Roman Catholic", or why you think you are one even though the Pope says that you are not one, or why you and he both say that you are one but you devote yourself to criticising and disobeying him, then everything else also begins to slide very, very, very quickly.

Doctrine itself. Liturgy, where overdone is as bad as underdone, and prissy is as bad as slapdash. Public and private morality, in what can become nests of rancid politics, and sexual immorality, and endemic alcoholism. Everything. Oh, yes. Some of us have been here before. Some of us have seen where this ends up.

Follow Peter.