C.S. Lewis is one of my favourite writers! I have read his children's books, 'The Narnia Chronicles', his adult science fiction, 'The Perelandra Trilogy', much of his apologetic work, and his 'Pilgrim's Regress' detailing his philosophical journey to Christianity. However, I was an Anglo-Catholic and that's one thing Lewis was not!
He was formed in the ultra-protestant 'Church of Ireland', which was (and is) fundamentally anti-Catholic, much more so than its sister Church in England. The Chevalier is correct that Lewis would have viewed Conversion to the True Church of Christ as a betrayal of his people, but he leaves out the fact that Lewis was essentially a 'Low Churchman', or what might be called today an 'evangelical' Anglican. His 'party' was the enemy in my Anglo-Catholic days, because they had historically been opposed to the 're-Catholicising' of the Anglican Communion.
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