CURRENTS: "Pope's Wooing of Anglicans Challenges Archbishop," by Dave Kansas, Wall Street Journal, 22 October 2009.

Know I've been sounding off on Catholicism lately. Had my Mother here for a week, and she brings it out in me.

The "two tracks" approach currently proposed within the Anglican Communion (which includes the American Anglicans known as Episcopalians) won't work, and Benedict's strategy is one reason why.

But the bigger problem is the harsh conservatism of the African Anglicans, which are the biggest group now by far.

But Benedict, in my mind, is just exacerbating the two schools already evident in the U.S. Catholic Church, and not all of those liberals will--like me--someday migrate to the Episcopalians, so I think we're looking at a preview of coming attractions.