Tag Archives: Independent / Old Catholicism

Apostates and Excluded Clergy

Posted on Monday, 25 June, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have not written anything on the Anglo-Catholic since the end of August 2010, and I simply have not gone along with what some might term as “ordinariate fever”. Deborah Gyapong has written a sensitive (albeit timid) posting about priests … Continue reading →

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More ideas about jury-rigged Catholicism

Posted on Sunday, 3 June, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Over the last few months, as I have been writing, I have been asking many questions and seeking the answer not in false certitude, but in a much deeper quest. I find the same malaise among many people in our … Continue reading →

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Union of Scranton Website

Posted on Thursday, 3 May, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

The Union of Scranton now has its own website. I have already mentioned on this blog that the Union of Scranton presently consists of the Polish National Catholic Church and the Nordic Catholic Church. The Christ-Katholischen Kirche in Deutschland is an … Continue reading →

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Re-post: Reflections about ‘vagante’ clergy and independent churches

Posted on Thursday, 26 April, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Reflections about ‘vagante’ clergy and independent churches It is worth reading my article again and particularly the wealth of comments. The world of Goliard clergy is vast and more diverse than we can imagine, though I sympathise with the aspiration to … Continue reading →

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Independent Catholic Churches in Europe

Posted on Wednesday, 25 April, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It occurred to me to make some effort at giving a list of some independent (non-Roman) Catholic Churches with their Internet links. One has to be very careful as some of those bishops would take you to court for saying … Continue reading →

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An Old Catholic perspective

Posted on Tuesday, 24 April, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I wrote a posting on the other blog under the title Absolute ordinations and received an interesting comment from Fr Jerome Lloyd of the Old Roman Catholic Church in Europe (I give the site of his ministry in Brighton as the … Continue reading →

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Absolute ordinations

Posted on Tuesday, 24 April, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Yesterday, I wrote about the question of a priest saying Mass on his own – whether it is because he considers the Mass as some kind of private magical prayer, or because he wants to participate in the communion of … Continue reading →

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The Nordic Catholic Church in Germany

Posted on Thursday, 19 April, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I draw your attention to a Nordic Catholic Church blog posting which is unfortunately in Nowegian – Historisk steg for Dnkk i Tyskland. Using Google translation, I am able to give you the drift of this article. Already, Bishop Roald Flemestad … Continue reading →

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Old Catholic Ecclesiology

Posted on Wednesday, 18 April, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Here I am importing a few articles from the old English Catholic blog. * * * Looking for a new home? This article by Bishop Roald Flemestad of the Nordic Catholic Church was published in this [December 2011] month’s New Directions, … Continue reading →

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A fine Norwegian church

Posted on Tuesday, 21 February, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is the Nordic Catholic Church’s parish in Bergen, dedicated to St Sunniva. I have found the photo in their blog post Fastelavn og karneval. The priest here, Fr Roy Olav, is giving a lesson to the children about Carneval, literally “goodbye … Continue reading →

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