There is no middle way between atheism and Catholicism, says Harvard professor who has converted

A Harvard law professor who experienced a dramatic conversion to Catholicism has suggested there is no middle way between atheism and the Church.

In an interview with Christina Dearduff, Dr Adrian Vermeule said that the logic behind his Catholic beliefs is inspired by Blessed John Henry Newman. He said: "Raised a Protestant, despite all my thrashing and twisting, I eventually couldn't help but believe that the apostolic succession through Peter as the designated leader and primus inter pares is in some logical or theological sense prior to everything else - including even Scripture, whose formation was guided and completed by the apostles and their successors, themselves inspired by the Holy Spirit."