Tag Archives: Northern Catholicism

Reflections on the Prayer Book

Posted on Saturday, 21 October, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

My brother in the priesthood Fr Jonathan Munn has written some reflections on the Prayer Book in Why I don’t use the Book of Common Prayer. That is certainly a provocative subject, especially with our American brethren identifying as Anglicans, … Continue reading →

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American Church? English Church?

Posted on Friday, 2 June, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Another fine article from Fr Jonathan Munn: Can there any good thing come out of America? I have been four times to the USA: January 1998 to Maryland, June 2002 and a year later to Tennessee and in December 2003 … Continue reading →

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J. Wickham Legg

Posted on Thursday, 4 May, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

On my morning rounds, I found “Good, or ancient, or Catholic” quoted from J. Wickham Legg. The exact source is not given, but a search on Google reveals his paper read before St Paul’s Ecclesiological Society on 27th October 1887, … Continue reading →

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Eucharistic Devotion

Posted on Friday, 28 April, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Reading one of Cardinal Ratzinger’s books in the 1980’s, I was quite struck by his reminiscences of Corpus Christi processions in Bavaria in places like Altötting and other towns. The tradition spreads into Switzerland in some places, and Fribourg where … Continue reading →

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What is Catholicism?

Posted on Thursday, 20 April, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This question comes up in my mind, and not for the first time. The idea came from a blog post written by a convert to Roman Catholicism with a highly critical attitude in regard to Continuing Anglicanism and even to … Continue reading →

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The French RC Continuum

Posted on Wednesday, 1 February, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I am probably the only Continuing Anglican priest with experience of French Catholicism, both in the Parisian mainstream and the traditionalist scene. I see many parallels between French Catholicism and Russian Orthodoxy: the identification of the Kingdom of God and … Continue reading →

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New Oxford Movement

Posted on Friday, 28 October, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have just seen something from Fr Anthony Clavier on Facebook about the question of a new Oxford Movement, with a quote from an inaccessible website: We shouldn’t compromise the traditions of High Church worship. But if we think the … Continue reading →

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Classical Catholicism

Posted on Sunday, 3 April, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

In the wake of recent reflections about the Roman Catholic traditionalist world, I am brought to offer a few reflections from my point of view as it developed over the years since I left the Institute of Christ the King … Continue reading →

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With the passing years…

Posted on Tuesday, 8 March, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have been delighted to find this video on Fr Quintin Montgomery Wright, which dates from 1988. Two indicators, his age of 74 and the controversy in that year over the four episcopal consecrations conferred by Archbishop Lefebvre. No one … Continue reading →

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Renaissance Cathedral

Posted on Thursday, 20 August, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I found this one on Facebook (click on the image to get full size), and the person who posted didn’t say where it was. He describes the painting as “Paul Vredeman de Vries, 1612, Interior of a Gothic Cathedral, now … Continue reading →

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