“Liking distinct rules that everyone can follow” (see D.J. Taylor’s Radio column on The Report, Arts 11 October) does not make Joseph Shaw “deeply orthodox”. Indeed in his homily to the Synod Fathers last week, Francis summed up the dangers of a regulatory mindset, warning against greed for power which causes “evil pastors to lay intolerable burdens on the shoulders of others, which they themselves do not lift a finger to move” (cf. Matthew 23:4). He may have had the whole of Matthew’s chapter in mind. As the Lefebvrists and Benedict XVI demonstrated, if there is to be a 2014 test of orthodoxy beyond what is written in the Creed, it is whether you accept the teachings of Vatican II. One can be orthodox and still notice that the speech of Car