On Fiducia supplicans... (sort of)

I wrote the editorial for the most recent issue of Gilbert magazine, and looked at the dustup over Fiducia supplicans and a lesson from Chesterton that should help us not to lose our peace over it...

We needn’t always be comfortable in our perilous perch in the giddy chariot that is the Church. From time to time, we may be bewildered, experience whiplash or worse jolts, when those at the reins seem to take a turn too fast or fail in avoiding a pothole. The charism of infallibility pertains to the chariot, in the end, not to the driver: we are assured that the wheels won’t come off, that the Thing will never turn over into a ditch. We are not assured of a smooth ride. ​

Read the whole thing.