Friday, August 28, 2020

Membership of One

Thomas Moore

There are many Zen Buddhisms and many Catholicisms. Emerson said every church has a membership of one. I don’t feel compelled to be a Catholic in the style of my local priest, my bishop, or my pope. They are authorities whose job it is to help me author my spiritual life, not emperors or sadomasochistic dominators, though some seem to feel that way. I don’t seek their approval for my Catholicism. Their job is to help me find my Catholicism, not theirs. I respect them, but I don’t pin my salvation to their sleeves, as my spiritual friend and namesake Thomas More of England once said.

Tricycle Magazine, Summer 2002

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