Monthly Archives: December 2012

What can we learn?

Posted on Saturday, 22 December, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It has been a few days that I have been aware of An Appeal from the Continuing Anglican Churches to the ACNA and Associated Churches. This text is now to be found in a number of websites and blogs. Perhaps … Continue reading →

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Nostalgia and Reality

Posted on Saturday, 22 December, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It is an emotion, as close as emotion as written words on the Internet can get, that sticks with us. I read in quite a few places a growing emotional attachment to a vision of the Catholic Church that would … Continue reading →

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Advent 2012 Pastoral Letter from England

Posted on Tuesday, 18 December, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

All this is very encouraging. Please keep the TTAC, its Vicar General and all the clergy and laity in your prayers. * * * Advent 2012 My Dear Friends, Greetings, to each and everyone one of you in the Name … Continue reading →

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Sickness Strikes and Alien Nation

Posted on Sunday, 16 December, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have been more or less keeping up with the comments on my recent postings, and sometimes they get lively. Thank you, gentlemen. Last Tuesday I started one of the most violent bronchitis bouts I have had in my life. … Continue reading →

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Counter Reformation Catholicism

Posted on Thursday, 13 December, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have already written on Counter Reformation Catholicism on the Anglo-Catholic blog. Though this blog has been in hiatus for some time, we can be grateful to its moderator for having kept the existing material in place. I woke this … Continue reading →

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End of the World

Posted on Wednesday, 12 December, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

One is inclined to be cynical about the credulous victims of the end-of-the-world hype that has been going around over the last few years. Yes, I have seen the film and I have the DVD in our collection. In it, … Continue reading →

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Ordinariate News

Posted on Wednesday, 12 December, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

There is quite a lot of news on Foolishness to the world and Fr Smuts’ blog about the Ordinariates and the new Deanery in Canada. I have met Fr Wilkinson and corresponded with him a few times, and congratulate him … Continue reading →

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Ebbing of Christianity

Posted on Wednesday, 12 December, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have been reading a number of articles about the ebbing of Christianity, the default position of people born since 1980 as agnostic or atheist and the surge of Islam. The various analyses are interesting and more or less convincing. … Continue reading →

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A New Model of Church?

Posted on Monday, 10 December, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is an interesting article from the Catholic Herald: Catholics today could see the birth of a new model of Church. Mass media seems to have changed everything, especially the Internet, blogs and social networking. Freedom of the press indeed, … Continue reading →

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Sarum Sequence for the Second Sunday of Advent

Posted on Sunday, 9 December, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Sequence for the Second Sunday of Advent (translated by Canon Warren). Let the choir devoutly bring Welcome to th’ eternal King, And with one consent renew The Creator’s homage due. Him angelic legions praise, On his face enraptured gaze. On … Continue reading →

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