If the Reformation made a mess in a great many matters, there is plenty of mess also in Rome and the East

So I stick on in the Church of England remembering that if the Reformation, as well as other influences, made a mess in a great many matters, there is plenty of mess also in Rome and the East. ... Stone believed the English mess, for all its muddle, at least did not claim to be anything other than provisional, and that this humble truthfulness was itself a Catholic virtue. Freedom from the dogmatic anathematisation of half of Christendom was something Stone valued enough to remain in his mother Church, for all its mess.

D. Stone, cited in T. Plant, 'Darwell Stone and Anglican identity: an appeal to the East', Sobornost 48:1 (2026), 31