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Vincent of Lerins and Organic Development
Perhaps it is time to move back to theology as a less provocative approach to this blog, since someone rightly observed that I have no real parish life (I live in France and proselytism to continuing Anglicanism is rather dimly … Continue reading
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Tagged Ecclesiology, Fundamental theology, Newman, Organic development, Theology
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Vestri Capilli Capitis
When I was a kid, I hated haircuts. Who did I dread most? The doctor, the dentist or the barber? I remember the place I went on the corner of Anne Street and Wildman Street in Kendal. The barber had … Continue reading
UKIP Shipping Forecast
I got the link for this on one of my sailing e-mail groups. I don’t discuss politics very much on this blog, but this is hilarious. UK Independence Party Shipping Forecast Trouble on the high seas… This site goes on … Continue reading
A Sarum Question
A correspondent wrote to me with a question on the Use of Sarum. At solemn high Mass ad usum Sarum, where was the Gospel proclaimed? And facing which direction? And do you know the origin of the Anglican tradition of … Continue reading
Inject, Shoot or Hang?
The USA is just about the only western country to have kept capital punishment. I have written on this topic before on Capital Punishment. I have noticed in various articles that prison facilities concerned with executing people who are condemned to … Continue reading
Does Christianity need Liturgy?
The question has been in my mind since I read Mosebach’s book and gave some general comments in Mosebach’s Heresy of Formlessness. What kind of Church would there be if there were no liturgy? Mosebach has a captivating anecdotal style, describing … Continue reading
Predictions about the Future of Christianity
Two interesting links have been sent out this week by Dr William Tighe, one to the future of Christianity being conservative Evangelical – Atheism is doomed: the contraceptive Pill is secularism’s cyanide tablet.The other is Why Millennials Long for Liturgy. … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservatism / Liberalism, Future of Christianity, Religious pathology
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Mosebach’s Heresy of Formlessness
A month ago, I wrote Does the Liturgy ever Exist in a Natural State? and this project brought me to buy Martin Mosebach’s book The Heresy of Formlessness. I have just finished reading it. Though an accomplished novelist and writer, Mosebach … Continue reading
Two Years Old
Set up on 17th January 2012, this blog is two years old. Its first post is Invitation, expressing my anxiety to be away from the old Ordinariate / TAC polemics that plagued the English Catholic blog I closed down. It … Continue reading
A Post-Christian World?
I have mulling over the article Pope Francis and Archbishop Welby Face Enormous Hurdles in a Post-Christian World by David Virtue for a little while. First of all, what is a millennial? Broadly speaking, it is the generation of people … Continue reading
The Blue Flower 