Tag Archives: Northern Catholicism

Kind words from Sweden

Posted on Tuesday, 7 February, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Nordisk-Katolska Kyrkan has just published a very kind article on my coverage of the reception of the Order of Port Royal into the Nordic Catholic Church. I do not read Swedish, but Google gives me this translation which I tweak … Continue reading →

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Welcome and Growth

Posted on Monday, 6 February, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Another spiritual treasure from Deacon’s Blog. This is from Bishop Thaddeus Peplowski of the Buffalo-Pittsburgh Diocese in Acts: New Hope – New Vision – New Growth. This is from an old article, 18th February 2011, but who could not be … Continue reading →

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Solidarity

Posted on Monday, 6 February, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I am deeply moved by this article by Deacon Jim of the Polish National Catholic Church who has a fine and spiritually-inspiring blog, Deacon’s Blog. Last July, the PNCC prepared to consecrate Father Roald Flemstad as the first Bishop of … Continue reading →

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The Order of Port Royal and St Severin’s Abbey

Posted on Thursday, 2 February, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

On Sunday, 22nd January 2012, the Abbot of a monastic community in Germany, Dom Klaus Schlapps, was received into full communion with the Nordic Catholic Church. The community, now indirectly a member of the Union of Scranton, is the Abbey … Continue reading →

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Northern Catholicism is not without its critics

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

I have just been to my letterbox and found two big brown envelopes from Dr William Tighe, that indefatigable scholar from Pennsylvania. He keeps sending me books and articles, and he is obviously someone with whom I would spend a … Continue reading →

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Odo Casel and Liturgical Theology

Posted on Saturday, 21 January, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Here is another resend of an old Anglo-Catholic posting, which I think is of particular interest to a Platonic way of thinking. * * * What I am going to discuss is the theology of the European Liturgical Movement and … Continue reading →

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Jansenism

Posted on Saturday, 21 January, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is a reposting of an article I wrote quite a long time ago on the Anglo-Catholic. I have little sympathy with any kind of puritanism or “ultra-serious” religion, but I really do understand this  reaction from Counter-Reformation theology and … Continue reading →

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The Union of Scranton

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

This text is taken from the website of the Nordic Catholic Church. As some of you might know, the Polish National Catholic Church, based in Scranton PA in the United States is no longer in communion with the Union of … Continue reading →

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The Catholic Movement in German Lutheranism

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

This essay by the German Lutheran scholar Friedrich Heiler is from a collection I have in my library – Northern Catholicism, centenary studies in the Oxford and parallel movements, edited by N.P. Williams and Charles Harris, London SPCK 1933. This … Continue reading →

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Erasmus and the Bible

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

In response to the call of this  new blog to articles on “northern Catholicism” as opposed to scholasticism or later denominational tendencies, I received this paper on Erasmus and the Bible from its author, Luke DeWeese. I have stored the … Continue reading →

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