The Big Tent

I must say I was heartened by the recent posts of Father Araujo and Eduardo Penalver. Araujo tells me that I may not be a Catholic if I do not have a certain kind of "allegiance to Peter."  (Like Eduardo (not to mention most American Catholics), I suspect that I do not have the kind of loyalty that Araujo has in mind though it is hard to be sure).

Penalver tells me that I do not leave the Church even if I sign up with the Episcopalians or the United Church of Christ ("at least in some sense" - a sense that Penalver believes Araujo could not subscribe to). My own view is that the Catholic Church has a large tent. How large that tent might be is contested. Some would see a much smaller tent than I. It would be hard to deny  that MOJ has a large tent, however. So I am heartened.