How divided is the Catholic Church in Great Britain?
What I would call the orthodox remnant is extremely small in Great Britain and although there are some very good priests, particularly some younger ones who believe in what I would call a supernatural dimension, the great bulk of the clergy and those in the bureaucratic and other structures of the Church are made in the mould of the post-Vatican II social-Catholicism. Archbishop Derek Warlock, late of Liverpool, was very strong on this. It is that social-Catholicism, combined with the great drive for unity with the Church of England, which ensured that specifically Catholic things like veneration of the Blessed Sacrament, belief in the Real Presence and belief in the authority of the Pope, were all played down as impediments to unity among the Christian churches. Under Cardinal Hume, the Church very successfully managed to change itself in many of its externals, so that from being a kind of immigrant sect it became almost indistinguishable from the Church of England. The two might have
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