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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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Western Rite Russian Orthodoxy in England

Posted on Monday, 17 June, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I received a private e-mail to give me information about how Western Orthodoxy under the Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia is developing in England. Some might want to trash it, but my own attitude is to encourage them in their … Continue reading →

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Western Rite Orthodoxy, a new proposition

Posted on Thursday, 30 May, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Not a little noise has been made about The Secret to Preserving Anglicanism by Fr Anthony Bondi of the Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia. I’m sure our friends Michael Frost and Dale will make much of it, and there has … Continue reading →

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Western Rite Orthodoxy

Posted on Monday, 23 April, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I republish here a somewhat dated article about the history of Western Rite Orthodoxy by Dr. Jean-François Mayer, a researcher at Fribourg University in Switzerland I have known personally.  Dr. Mayer himself had become Orthodox after having explored a number … Continue reading →

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Orthodoxy and Catholicism

Posted on Thursday, 25 June, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Not intending to stir up old embers for the Blowout department, this is a fine article – Distinctions between Orthodoxy and Catholicism. Many of us Anglicans joke cynically about the “two one true churches”. I really am far beyond having … Continue reading →

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Post-Institutional Catholics

Posted on Sunday, 14 February, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Update: this article of mine inspired another blog article Is the Pope Catholic? Who cares!? I have already criticised Pius IX’s infallibilist ideology as something that is intellectually absurd, and which is in fact the basis of sedevacantism. I find … Continue reading →

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Dr Winch’s Gregorian Club

Posted on Thursday, 25 January, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I am dwelling somewhat on Dr Raymond Winch (1921-2000), because I think I have some understanding of his thought underneath the enthusiastic rhetoric of his desire to get western rites accepted by existing Eastern Orthodox Churches. This understanding was brought … Continue reading →

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In these early days of 2018

Posted on Wednesday, 3 January, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I belatedly wish my readers a happy New Year. The Christmas Octave is over and we celebrate the octaves of St John, the Holy innocents, and then the Vigil of the Epiphany with the octave of St Thomas of Canterbury. … Continue reading →

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Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate

Posted on Saturday, 22 July, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It is the famous quote of Dante, most frequently translated as Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. It is a quotation I often remember when walking up some streets in London with the dark glass and steel office buildings … Continue reading →

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Leavened Bread and the Blessed Sacrament

Posted on Thursday, 1 January, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Patricius has written Elevations… which is interesting when you get to know its author a little. He loves making conservative readers bristle by his rhetoric! I have always used standard unleavened wafers that you buy ready made and keep in … Continue reading →

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