The former Anglican chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II and a convert to Catholicism reacts to the announcement that a Catholic priest has gone over to the Church of England. Why? It cannot be an additional belief, so it has to be a loss of belief: a loss of the belief that the priest has the authority to effect the change in the sacrament, or a loss of belief that this is truly a liturgical event representing the sacrifice of Christ, ever present among us and available to be received and consumed. Becoming Catholic is a discovery that Christ founded the Catholic Church on St Peter, and that the Catholic Church will never be overcome.
