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A letter to the editor printed in this week’s edition of The Tablet:

Brendan Walsh’s report (“Heythrop’s fate”, 17 September) of a senior academic suggesting that the demise of Heythrop was an episode in a long struggle between “outward-facing, inquisitive, challenging” theology on one side and “inward-looking, submissive, unquestioning” theology on the other is telling.

Positing such a simplistic binary split between Enlightened Me and Poor Ignorant You is patronising to those attempting to live out the radical beauty of the Christian life in tune with Catholic teaching. It’s not surprising that an institution with academics holding this view is entering its death spiral, while religious communities that don’t consider basic orthodox belief as optional are bursting at the seams.

Few things are more challenging – and more rewarding – than faithfulness; while some cling to clapped-out heterodoxies and managed decline, the rest of the Catholic world has moved on.

ANDREW CUSACK
London SW1

Published at 11:00 am on Wednesday 5 October 2016. Categories: Church Errant Thoughts Tags: , , , .
Comments

Indeed, perhaps the genesis of many heterodoxies is in the difficulty that the heterodox may find in the intellectually very challenging nature of such doctrines as those of the hypostatic union and of the Trinity.

— Animadversor 5 Oct 2016 8:57 pm

Same Tablet reports SJs are putting the Heythrop site [sic:its covered with listed buildings] up for sale at £300 million.

— Rory O'Donnell 6 Oct 2016 10:38 pm
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