There is a very troubling spread in the Times today (see the inside piece here)concerning some letters exchanged between ABC Rowan Williams and a Dr. Pitt. This is a tactical move to say the least by some who really seem to not understand the nature of the Church. It’s not the ‘old news’ of the ABC’s views of late that is troubling (not sure what the motive for putting this out now is all about) but the views of the press and the culture that demands the Church to get into line with something completely contrary to its own worldview. We find such comments by some who comment here such as John Realis when he writes,
Newspaper article after newspaper article upbraids C of E Anglicanism for not being liberal enough, for not being more in line with the positive values of British society, among which rejection of grievous past discrimination against homosexuals and joyful acceptance of civil partnerships – otherwise known as marriages – are the most exemplary – and by no means confined to ‘the chattering classes’. Try to get a grip on reality – not self-seeking fantasy.
This only goes to show how much this secularised culture is in the dark about the ways of faithful Catholic Christianity that is counter-cultural to such false ideologies and philosophies that shape a distorted secularised worldview.
I am also reminded of another observation by TS Eliot: These were decent godless people whose only monument is the asphalt road and a thousand lost golf balls.