I commend the five Church of England Bishops who announced Monday they were converting to Catholicism following Pope Benedict’s invitation to disaffected Anglicans.
Radical Anglicans who support women bishops and the evil of homosexuality misinterpret the Bible and are guided by a false sense of freedom. They seek not God but their own selfish desires of power and lust.
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 traditionalist 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.