My friend Dan Hitchens has a good and thoughtful article in The Spectator about the leadership - or rather the lack of it - from the top in both the Catholic and Anglican communions. If, and it is a fairly big one, if both Pope Francis and Archbishop Wellby were seen as figures of unity and inclusiveness a decade ago as they commenced their current roles, that is no longer the case. Their successors are likely to be from one side of the divide or divides which have developed further during their primacies. What that may portend is almost anyone’s guess.
The article can be read at The third great crisis in Christianity
There is nought, or precious little, for either communion’s current comfort in the picture that is painted, and that is without probing too deeply into the divisions. It does not take long to begin to take the measure of those by sampling the videos on YouTube and to realise that the bland nostrums of so much ecclesiastical officialdom are in effect fiddling whilst both Rome and Canterbury burn.
It does, I think, show the need for the faithful to pray not just for their present leaders but also for their future ones.
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