“Roman Catholicism has become the biggest liberal denomination in the world “
For if they are going into Catholicism for conservative reasons, then they are going in under false pretenses. The RCC has become the world’s largest liberal denomination. There’s a residual conservatism on a handful of token social issues, but don’t let that obscure the degree to which Rome has made a hard left turn.
Helping old mother church across the street
In a sense, then, Armstrong and his cobelligerents have never really converted to Catholicism at all. Instead, they’ve founded their own little private Victorian Catholic cult, with Newman, Knox, Belloc, Chesterton, and Tolkien as their patron saints—whereas the real Roman Catholicism is represented by the likes of Rahner and Raymond Brown. Theirs is not official Catholicism, but a treehouse for child actors. This is Oreo cookie Catholicism—Popish on the outside, but schismatic on the inside.
