Monthly Archives: December 2012

New Year’s Greetings from Archbishop Prakash

Posted on Monday, 31 December, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I merely link to the posting on Fr Smuts’ blog: Archbishop Samuel Prakash: New Year’s Message

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New Year Greetings and Predictions 2013

Posted on Monday, 31 December, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I wish all my readers a happy New Year and peace in the coming year. Now for my predictions, as several bloggers are venturing theirs. Pope Benedict XVI will abdicate, go and live in the USA, be “born again” and … Continue reading →

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2012 statistics

Posted on Monday, 31 December, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Word Press is encouraging us to allow them to publish our statistics for 2012. I prefer to word it and format it in my own way. I started this blog just under one year ago, which was well before my … Continue reading →

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Why this Blog?

Posted on Sunday, 30 December, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

There has been no small amount of discussion in several blogs since I wrote to Bishop Marsh to ask him about what bishops thought they were doing when they signed the Roman Catholic catechism and a petition, wearing copes and … Continue reading →

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John Gielgud as the Grand Inquisitor

Posted on Saturday, 29 December, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I share with you this rendering of Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor by one of England’s greatest actors, John Gielgud. In view of some of the nasty smelly brown stuff floating around the blogosphere here and there, I think this parable should … Continue reading →

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Is your Christmas Over?

Posted on Friday, 28 December, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

My wife and I went to my mother-in-law’s home in Rouen for Christmas Day, just as soon as I had finished the Mass of the Day in my chapel. The other family members would have been to the Cathedral on … Continue reading →

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More Questions about the ACNA

Posted on Thursday, 27 December, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This article came up in Deborah Gyapong’s blog – What are the chief obstacles in persuading ACNA members to consider Ordinariates? Would the Anglican Church in North America be interested in the Ordinariate, the PNCC or the uniting Continuing bodies from … Continue reading →

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Being a Mature Spiritual Seeker

Posted on Thursday, 27 December, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

After the last few days of bouncing ideas around the ether of the blogosphere, I cannot avoid certain more interior reflections. On one side, if I am not prepared to go back to Rome “for more” in the name of … Continue reading →

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The Anglican Church of India

Posted on Thursday, 27 December, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is a reposting of an old article (November 9th 2010) from the defunct English Catholic blog. I have edited the text a little. * * * In October 2007, I had the honour of meeting Archbishop Samuel Prakash in … Continue reading →

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The Anglican Catholic Church in Australia

Posted on Thursday, 27 December, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

As a final piece of work for today, I give a portrait of the ACCA, from whose ranks a bishop was chosen by Pope Benedict XVI to be the Ordinary. I am not sure the separation process is yet complete … Continue reading →

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