This is from an e-mail I just sent a friend of the site.  I really appreciate comments and e-mail folks!  If you think I’m too liberal or too conservative or too weird, just let me know!

For me, the truth is the Eucharist (and all the other sacraments too obviously) and the existence of the Holy Roman Catholic Church, a community in which I am totally dedicated to engaging myself and having a conversation.  I’m a firm believer in truth and reason, and I believe that the Church can’t disagree with empirical evidence or good arguments (ultimately anyways) though I think it sometimes takes a long time…  My project, as I see it, is to talk to fellow Catholics while still being Catholic, not changing the rules or even calling for the rules to be changed but suggesting why they might be and how that could work.  And, obviously, keeping humble and open to correction.  This is how I would distinguish myself from the more heterodox in the Anglican communion, and we both see what’s going on there.