Author Archives: Fr Anthony Chadwick

The Anglican Catholic Blog

The Anglican Catholic is a new blog, which I hope will become quasi-official in our Church and run in a totally different spirit to that of this personal blog. Please stop and view the About page, because this gives the … Continue reading →

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Reflections on Ressourcement Theology

I’m reposting something from my defunct English Catholic blog, which I see as particularly useful. Like the medieval Church when the fragmentation was as yet latent with the Lollards and the early Reformers, much of the problem was being caught … Continue reading →

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Anglican Comprehensiveness

This is a really difficult subject that has caused so much conflict between Anglicans and which causes people of other Churches to doubt our sincerity and attachment to the notion of objective truth. Comprehensiveness is essentially a political solution to … Continue reading →

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Anglican Catholic Clarity

I greatly appreciate what Archbishop Mark Haverland wrote a couple of years ago in The Trinitarian about the position of the ACC in relation to Anglicanorum coetibus. I bring up the subject, not as an attack against the Roman Catholic … Continue reading →

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Sailing in 2013

I have written very little about sailing this season. I took the boat out for the sixth time this year last Friday, and I hope to have a nice little outing tomorrow in spite of being promised 100 % cloud … Continue reading →

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The Nightmare of a Post-Human World

Dr William Tighe sent out an e-mail with the text of Leon Kass: The Meaning of the Gosnell Trial. Gosnell, according to the evidence given by the media, is a quack specialised in abortions “on the cheap”. The story is … Continue reading →

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For a Continuing Anglican Ecumenical Movement

I jot down these few ideas in response to Ed Pacht who observed the remarks of Archbishop Haverland in regard to Archbishop Falk and the TAC, affirming that there is an ongoing debate. I can easily see that there are … Continue reading →

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Conciliarism

I have already brought up the subject of Conciliarism in Old Catholic Ecclesiology and Northern Catholicism. Conciliarism was a reforming movement in the European Church from about the fourteenth century. It promoted the view that the highest authority in the Church is … Continue reading →

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Sarum Revival

It’s an incredible “sticky” subject, and it seems to be best to teach by example rather than arguing it out. Back in 2010 and earlier, I speculated about such an idea being possible, not as something to be universally imposed … Continue reading →

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Divided we Stand

I would like to draw your attention to the article Divided we Stand. Some of the comments to this blog post reflect some of the feelings I have had on reading this book by Douglas Bess, which I finished last … Continue reading →

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