So now that I’ve decided that Christ is a sign of contradiction and that we should “accept and pass on to others the whole of the truth that sets men free,” what next? Sounds hugely ambitious. Still, everything has to be put in its setting and grand plans do that. And I suppose the idea of the Church is that I’m not the only one involved, even though Vatican II—which certainly didn’t get everything wrong—says that I as a layman have a definite role to play.