Tag Archives: Continuing Anglicanism

Our New Pro-Cathedral in the UK

Posted on Wednesday, 24 January, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Click on the photo for an enlargement. I have been following the developments of my Bishop’s new church near Faversham in Kent, and this photo has appeared just after the carpeting was laid and the windows covered with a special … Continue reading →

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Another response to my brother priest

Posted on Sunday, 7 January, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

As promised, since I am well advanced with my translation orders that have to be delivered tomorrow. I have done about 26,000 words in only four days, but with the help of automatic translation – a very good and intuitive … Continue reading →

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Fr Jonathan Munn begins the year with a bang!

Posted on Saturday, 6 January, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Sorry for the corny title! Fr Jonathan has reached the end of his tether with Facebook. That is something I fully understand, though I have learned to use Facebook with great care and understanding it as a place for special … Continue reading →

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Swimming Rivers

Posted on Wednesday, 27 December, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

There has been a long thread on the Facebook Discussion Group for Anglicans Considering the Anglican Continuum (closed group). It concerns the relative merits of those Anglicans who become Roman Catholics through the Ordinariate or normal diocesan channels, or yet via … Continue reading →

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Straining at the Leash?

Posted on Thursday, 9 November, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Archbishop Peter Robinson wrote in Facebook: One of the things that is quite characteristic of modern Anglicanism, it seems, is its ability to ignore its own statements on doctrine, discipline, and worship. One area in which this is particularly evident … Continue reading →

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Further Reflections on Independent Sacramental Churches

Posted on Sunday, 5 November, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Dr William Tighe sent me an e-mail this morning with a reference to a book I bought some time ago – The Many Paths of the Independent Sacramental Movement (Independent Catholic Heritage) by John P. Plummer. I wrote Independent Sacramental … Continue reading →

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Bishop Leslie Hamlett

Posted on Sunday, 5 November, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

My Bishop has just published a brief notice on our diocesan website Rest in Peace + Leslie Hamlett (Bishop Ordinary 1992 – 1997). Given his being in extremis for some time (he was in a hospice), I can understand that … Continue reading →

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The Trio

Posted on Thursday, 26 October, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I am sure I will one day find another nickname for the little trio comprising Fr Gregory Wassen, Fr Jonathan Munn and your humble (or not humble enough!) servant. Perhaps we might one day organise a little seminar where people … Continue reading →

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Gallicanism, France’s “Anglicanism”

Posted on Monday, 23 October, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have often expressed the idea of Anglicanism as an “English Gallicanism”. What was Gallicanism? The Wikipedia article is quite a good introduction from the historical point of view. Gallicanism is a rejection of ultramontanism; it is akin to a … Continue reading →

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Via Media

Posted on Monday, 23 October, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

The title might seem provocative, since Newman’s reaction against that idea figured in his decision to become a Roman Catholic in early nineteenth-century England and Rome. He came up against the “brick wall” of what amounted in the Church of … Continue reading →

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