Tag Archives: Ecclesiology

The mask comes away…

Posted on Tuesday, 18 September, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have come across a review of a book on the history of Vatican I (1870) in Vatican I, Pius IX, and the problem of ultramontanism. The article is published in a Roman Catholic site, and criticism from such a … 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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Purple Fever

Posted on Monday, 23 July, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Fr Jonathan Munn has written an article / sermon on How to recognise a bishop. I have written a number of articles on independent bishops and their churches. Further Reflections on Independent Sacramental Churches Lots of Little Pointed Hats Episcopi Vagantes … Continue reading →

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A Storm in a Teacup

Posted on Saturday, 21 July, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

My attention was drawn to an article in Fr Robert Hart’s blog – Convert Orthodoxy as Media Echo Chamber and the use made of it by You-Know-Who to portray Anglican / Anglo – Catholics as faux Catholics. I had brushes with … 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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Vocation

Posted on Wednesday, 13 June, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

After withdrawing from a particularly negative view of things as expressed in a certain blog, I turned more attentively to my nautical plans – only clothes and bathroom things into a dry bag, and everything will be just about ready … 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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Idealism, Realism and Churches

Posted on Wednesday, 21 March, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

My intuition of going the philosophical way seems to be confirmed by my posting on the recent developments in the American Anglican world and the emerging Old Catholicism from the Nordic Catholic Church and the PNCC. I am confronted by … Continue reading →

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Completing the Reformation

Posted on Monday, 19 March, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I am not American and have no experience of the “second wave” of dissidence from the Canterbury Communion. All the same, I’m not surprised. My attention has been drawn to ACNA’s Anglo-Catholic Exodus. One of the ANCA dioceses is splitting away … Continue reading →

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Conference in Oxford

Posted on Friday, 23 February, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have just successfully applied for the possibility to attend a conference to be held at St Stephen’s House, Oxford, on 25th and 26th April this year. It will be just a few days after our Diocesan Synod in London … Continue reading →

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