Monthly Archives: November 2012

A Promising Independent Sacramental Apostolate

Posted on Wednesday, 7 November, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I had often wondered what happened to Brother Stephen Treat who was a monk at Spring Bank Cistercian Abbey and wrote a good number of articles on The Anglo-Catholic blog now in a state of extended hiatus. As far as I … Continue reading →

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Evil as the Absence of Empathy

Posted on Wednesday, 7 November, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Last night for just under three hours, I watched the film made in around 2000 about the Nuremberg Trials of the leading war criminals in 1945-46. I found the acting brilliant, especially the psychopathic manipulation and evil “aura” of Herman … Continue reading →

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A Lutheran Pastor on Western Orthodoxy

Posted on Tuesday, 6 November, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

My stats page informed me that my blog had been linked to by a blog run by a Lutheran pastor in the US. The article in question is Must Orthodoxy be Byzantine? He refers to my earlier article – Western … Continue reading →

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Northern Catholicism and Celtic Catholicism

Posted on Monday, 5 November, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This comment just came in from Stephen K in Australia following my posts Northern Catholicism, Celtic Christianity and Celtic Christianity Revisited: I thought yours a wonderfully concise summary of the differences between Northern and Southern Catholicism, Father. What I want to know … Continue reading →

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Moving Beyond

Posted on Monday, 5 November, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Just to follow on from my posting about hell and salvation and the linked doctrine Extra ecclesia nulla salus, we are led to the challenging idea that once Christianity or a particular version of it are no longer the only … Continue reading →

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Hell and Salvation

Posted on Monday, 5 November, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Note: My use of the word continuum in this context is intended to mean gradual variation from one end of the scale to the other as opposed to discrete and abrupt changes or differences. It is a concept used in … Continue reading →

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Sessio and Missio

Posted on Sunday, 4 November, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I believe I have to some extent identified a characteristic that is fairly widespread in Continuing Anglicanism, and which seems to be at the root of many conflicts and contestations of power, especially between bishops. There is another aspect, which … Continue reading →

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