Bishop Steenson's Address to the Episcopal Church House of Bishops

Episcopal Church Bishop Jeffrey Steenson, who announced day before yesterday that he will leave the Episcopal Church to become Roman Catholic, today addressed the Episcopal Church House of Bishops which is concluding its meeting today in New Orleans.  Stand Firm has the text.  Here is a portion of it:

"From time to time it seems necessary for some to embark on these personal journeys as a reminder that the churches of the Reformation were not intended to carry on indefinitely separated from their historical and theological mooring in the Church of Rome. I believe that the Lord now calls me in this direction. It amazes me, after all of these years, what a radical journey of faith this must necessarily be. To some it seems foolish; to others disloyal; to others an abandonment. I once thought that it would be a simple matter of considering the theological evidence and then drawing a rational conclusion that surely would be self-evident to reasonable people. But faith is also a mystery and a gift, and this ultimately becomes a journey of the heart."