Madam, – I commend the three Anglican bishops who converted to Catholicism on Saturday (World News, January 17th). Their act marks the historical beginning of what promises to be a mass exodus of Anglicans over to the Catholic church. The movement is being spurred on by the growing acceptance within the Anglican communion of female bishops, practising homosexual clergy, and disagreements over the primacy of sacred scripture within the church.
Sadly, some people want to measure the truth of the faith by modern society’s standards. They mistakenly believe that divine Revelation must adapt itself to the current mentality in order to be credible, instead of the current mentality converting in the light that comes to us from on high. The result is a stripping of the Redeemer of man of his radical uniqueness, and classifying him as someone who can be managed and domesticated.
Anglican traditionalists should take heart. They are always welcome back to the fullness of truth that resides, with all its pristine beauty and splendour, inside the Catholic Church. I encourage everyone – including agnostics, atheists and dissenting Catholics – who are tossed about by the waves of false doctrines, to climb aboard the barque of Peter, for it will be their only safe haven in these troubling times. – Yours, etc,