"But if we believe in the reality of revelation, and if we believe that the
Church is entrusted with it, then we have to give a concrete meaning and form to
that confidence. We cannot infinitely postpone our obedience and response to the
truth, as it seems to me many forms of liberal Protestantism tend to do. If the
Church has the gospel of truth, someone, somewhere, has to be trusted to say
what it is, and to call on us to receive it. That process seems to me now more
complex and less simplistically hierarchical than we imagined in 1950, but the
essence of what we believed in 1950 seems to me both true, and precious. A
Church without real authority is not the Church at all. We receive and proclaim
the Catholic faith which come to us from the apostles, we do not invent it: the
Brothers, and my grandmother, knew that too."
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