Tag Archives: Anglicanorum coetibus

My Former Archbishop

Fr Stephen Smuts has published photos and articles from the mainstream Australian press in No Charge for Priest Accused by John Hepworth and Oh How the Mighty Have Fallen…. I followed much of this at the time, especially between the time I … 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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Ordinariates under Pope Francis

Deborah Gyapong asks the question Could this new Pope pave the way for new Ordinariates? I suppose nothing is impossible, and we will not have long to wait to find out what the major orientations of the new pontificate are going … Continue reading

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Sarum and the Ordinariate Liturgy

There is a posting in Deborah Gyapong’s blog: What role should Sarum play in the Ordinariate liturgy? In a discussion with a friend about Msgr. Stephen Lopes’ excellent talk on developing an agreed upon liturgy for the Anglican Use Ordinariates, my … Continue reading

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Congratulations

A number of articles in Deborah Gyapong’s Foolishness to the World refer to the ordination to the Roman Catholic priesthood of one of the former TAC bishops in Canada, Fr Carl Reid. I would like to extend my warmest congratulations … Continue reading

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Why this Blog?

There has been no small amount of discussion in several blogs since I wrote to Bishop Marsh to ask him about what bishops thought they were doing when they signed the Roman Catholic catechism and a petition, wearing copes and … Continue reading

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Deborah Gyapong and Trashing

She has been bashing this one for a long time, but I have always treated her as a lady and have sometimes tried to “negotiate”. Personally, I am fond of her, but her decreasing tolerance has made me truly wince. … Continue reading

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A New Blog

I have recently come across a new blog under the title of St Mary’s Hollywood: The Cold Case File, run by John Bruce, an erstwhile parishioner at St Mary of the Angels Church in Hollywood during the events of 2011 and … Continue reading

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The TAC Bishops and Outside Scrutiny

The Roman Catholic lawyer Mourad has just sent another comment to Fr Smuts blog in response to Fr Robert, the “Irish Anglican”. I have esteemed this lawyer’s input for some time. It deserves our attention. It shows a distinction that … Continue reading

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Bishop Botterill on the TAC Tribunal

Some of us seriously question the tribunal recently conducted in India by some of the present hierarchy of the TAC. In the blogs, there are essentially two voices still discussing the question, that of Fr Smuts in Hepworth Redux and Deborah … Continue reading

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