Tag Archives: Anglicanorum coetibus

Anglican Catholicism, a twitch upon the thread

Posted on Tuesday, 3 March, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have been looking at a fascinating thread on the Anglican Ordinariate Forum on Facebook. Some of those people reflect well, among those of a more fearful disposition. I will try to give a general gist of some of these … Continue reading →

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Romantic Reconstruction or Intellectual Prestige

Posted on Thursday, 27 February, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

The question keeps nagging away in my mind. A little handful of people in the past and today keep producing books and articles about the Rite / Use of Sarum but cannot get through the barrier represented by the fact … Continue reading →

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English Tradition

Posted on Sunday, 5 January, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

My attention has just been drawn to Charism of the Ordinariate published by the Australian Ordinariate. They offer seven points as what they consider most characteristic of the reason why the Ordinariates should not simply be absorbed into mainstream post-Vatican … Continue reading →

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Anglicanorum Coetibus Hermeneutics

Posted on Wednesday, 25 July, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

In about 2010 and the following year, we were all speculating about Anglicanorum coetibus and whose petition it was answering. Mrs Deborah Gyapong has written Syncretism? Bait and switch? A look at reality in the Ordinariates for Catholics of Anglican Patrimony. … Continue reading →

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The Patrimony and Romanticism

Posted on Wednesday, 11 July, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I received a very kind e-mail about my last posting on what we continuing Anglicans are continuing. The correspondent in question is a priest in the Church of England but in the Forward in Faith jurisdiction. I think two paragraphs … Continue reading →

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Roman Catholic Churchmanship

Posted on Sunday, 20 May, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It is not my intention to rant against Rome, because it is an Apostolic Church in direct continuity from the Undivided and Universal Church to which we as Anglicans profess our faith in the Affirmation of Saint Louis. We repudiate … Continue reading →

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Saint John Hepworth?

Posted on Friday, 18 May, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This has just been sent to me privately. I have the impression that it is an altarpiece at St Agatha’s, Portsmouth. Look at the first candlestick to the right of the altar cross. It looks like Archbishop Hepworth next to … Continue reading →

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The Guns of Navarone are retargeted

Posted on Thursday, 17 May, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

First it was the continuing Churches, then the Ordinariates, then Anglicanorum coetibus, and now Anglo-Catholicism in general. The old fellow seems to be trying a more philosophical approach, almost on cue. Anglo-Catholicism And Darwin He would have done better to … Continue reading →

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Msgr Andrew Burnham and Romanticism

Posted on Monday, 30 April, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

One of the loveliest talks I heard this week in Oxford was that of Msgr Andrew Burnham of the Ordinariate in England – Reply to Bishop Christopher Cocksworth’s ‘The Character and Gifts of Anglican Worship’. The following passage particularly impressed me: … Continue reading →

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Conference in Oxford

Posted on Friday, 27 April, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I am still in England after having been at my Diocesan Synod in Westminster, served our little mission in Bristol, spent a day with a dear friend who was recently inducted as a parish Vicar, enjoyed precious time with another … Continue reading →

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