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New ACC website
I received an e-mail from Fr David Marriott to invite us to see the new Anglican Catholic Church – Original Province website. My congratulations for this excellent effort at modern communication! http://www.anglicancatholic.org/ It is very well set out and the … Continue reading
Nuts and Bolts
Thinking of running some kind of Christian mission, hankering for the role of a parish priest, is something like modern business and markets. When I set out to earn my living as a translator, I attended a short course in … Continue reading
The Illusion of Time
I was out in my boat a few days ago and mused how time seems so different at sea than on land. Has anyone thought about how time goes quickly when you guzzle and gulp your breakfast to get to … Continue reading
TAC update
Update: For the sake of honesty, Fr Smuts has published his more critical position concerning Archbishop Hepworth on Archbishop John Hepworth the Martyr? Lacking first-hand information, I cannot commit myself to a position other than saying that he is no longer … Continue reading
Belief and Morality
Here is an interesting essay with comments – If there is a God, then anything is permitted. It is a response to a saying attributed to Dostoevsky to the effect that if there is not belief in God, there is … Continue reading
The Name of the Rose
My copy of this book is now dog-eared and beaten. I think I must have read it about four or five times, and something new always strikes me each time. The film is fun, but much more superficial than the … Continue reading
Man’s Oldest Dilemma
I have been thinking of writing an article on this subject for a long time, and I am fairly certain that it is a question that guides and determines the way any human society works, including churches. The question is … Continue reading
Sodalitium Pianum
I wrote this article in early 2010 in the old English Catholic blog. I have received a few e-mails asking me for the articles I wrote about the Sapinière or Sodalitium Pianum, an organisation set up under the pontificate of … Continue reading
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A few more thoughts about vocation
Whole libraries of books have been written about vocations, mostly since the time of the Council of Trent, when the Church wanted honest and dedicated priests instead of lazy and gluttonous parasites. The notion comes from the way biblical characters … Continue reading
An article about blogging
I found this on Fr Smuts’ blog – Does Blogging Help or Hinder Online Debate? Time was when the scholar, the preacher and the politician sat down and wrote a book, or at least a pamphlet or article, and sent it … Continue reading
The Blue Flower 