Tag Archives: Independent / Old Catholicism

Boniface X is BACK!

Posted on Tuesday, 20 October, 2020 by

Boniface X is back! He has set up his Twitter account again and has recovered the old Thomas Sparks address Roman Catholicism – The Apostolic See. He lacks the flamboyant pizzaz of Peter III at El Palmar de Troya and he still … Continue reading →

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A poignant but honest look at the independent Catholic scene

Posted on Friday, 15 May, 2020 by

A website referred to an article I wrote quite a long time ago about the independent Catholic movement, as it is known most charitably. The article in question Can the Independent Sacramental Movement Be Revitalized? The article is long and rings … Continue reading →

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The Nordic Catholic Church and Gnosticism

Posted on Thursday, 27 February, 2020 by

Update from 5th March 2020. I have received various bits of new information and I am concerned not to be an obstacle in the developing relationship between our churches. Bishop Flemestad has a remarkably lucid philosophical view of the fundamental … Continue reading →

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Enigma Variations

Posted on Tuesday, 29 October, 2019 by

No, this is not the beautiful music of Elgar, but another set of variations on the mystery of why so many men want to assume the role of the Pope, or find a solution to the contradiction between their belief … Continue reading →

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Another Alternative Pope – Boniface X

Posted on Sunday, 27 October, 2019 by

This revised story is one of a truly anonymous alternative pope and a howling banshee. I can only know he exists, because there is a website and my own writing has caused this person to write reams of shrill and … Continue reading →

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The Boys from Brazil

Posted on Saturday, 6 October, 2018 by

No, I am not alluding to the film in which Gregory Peck plays the sadistic Nazi doctor Josef Mengele who “made” nearly a hundred clones of Hitler. I am describing a book about a dissident Catholic church founded at the … Continue reading →

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What are we trying to continue?

Posted on Tuesday, 10 July, 2018 by

Some time ago, I resolved to step down from the sterile polemics with our friend in California – yes, you know who. I won’t give the link this time. He has noticed that the American Episcopal Church has decided to … Continue reading →

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Schsim or Schism?

Posted on Friday, 11 May, 2018 by

The poor old dear is having another go, and indeed, methinks he doth protest too much. We should begin by imagining the ideal world of this fellow. The entire planet is a suburb of some great American city in the … Continue reading →

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Viability

Posted on Wednesday, 9 May, 2018 by

My domesticated challenge and antithesis has kindly commented on a synodal address given by Bishop Paul C Hewett on 27th April 2018. On reading this address, I had a positive impression of it all, a frank awareness of our fragility and … Continue reading →

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Completing the Reformation

Posted on Monday, 19 March, 2018 by

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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