It is always a joy, after a busy week being a member (baptised, confirmed, committed, and staying) of the Anglican communion of the Christian Church, to read Damian Thompson's Daily Telegraph blog, where his few but vociferous responders still evidently believe that camels pass through the eyes of needles and angels dance on points. Damian can't help being an intravenous Roman Catholic any more than DT readers can help being intravenous Tories, but you could never accuse him of being timid in the fray.
The divisions between the Christian churches have more to do with ecclesiology than with theology, as Dr Rowan Williams didn't quite say last week, and when the Vatican has to support its Anglicanorum coetibus with new translations of its law and doctrines that conveniently assert, even consolidate, its view of its own primacy, it is perhaps time to examine the ecclesiology of Rome more closely, as Charles Sherlock did in a piece which is almost guaranteed to summon the ironclads of the Inquisition to the palatial lawns of Bendigo.
As always in this age of spin, the detail is concealed in the small print.
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