Tag Archives: Roman Catholicism

Being Poor, Non-Pelagian and Re-oriented

Posted on Thursday, 15 August, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

There’s a lovely article on Fr Ray Blake’s blog Poorer Church, a non-Pelagian Church, a re-Orientated Church. He naturally bases his ideas on what he has been hearing from Pope Francis. Poor Church? Few things make me more angry than … Continue reading →

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Pope Francis on Progressivism and Traditionalism

Posted on Sunday, 4 August, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I found this fascinating quote in the article From Rio de Janeiro to Rome, from Poetry to Prose by Sandro Magister. In it, Magister quotes the Pope’s take on two opposite tendencies, progressive and traditionalist, present in the Church: The … Continue reading →

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Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence!

Posted on Thursday, 18 July, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Grab yours before it’s too late! So commercial advertising blares out to the world. The British mainstream left-wing press has published Vatican offers ‘time off purgatory’ to followers of Pope Francis tweets. The article seems pretty sick, and I can … Continue reading →

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The Barque of Peter?

Posted on Wednesday, 10 July, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I love this one! Pope Francis celebrates Mass on the island of Lampedusa and someone seems to want the celebration to be relevant to seamen. Well, let’s see. The vessel seems to be about eight feet in length excluding the … Continue reading →

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Valid but Irregular?

Posted on Thursday, 20 June, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have been getting some new responses to an earlier article, Vagante Bishops and Aping Rome, about a small number of individuals who get themselves ordained and consecrated bishops by prelates on whom they count for getting themselves recognised as valid … Continue reading →

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Herding Cats Revisited

Posted on Sunday, 19 May, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

My wife and I have two adorable Chartreux cats who luxuriate in their thick and soft grey fur, named Celestine and her biological offspring is called Doucelin. We are woken each morning by incessant head-rubbing and purring as these two … Continue reading →

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A possible sign of the times – Piero Marini?

Posted on Tuesday, 30 April, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Article in French – Piero Marini, préfet de la Congrégation du Culte divin ? Une rumeur improbable, mais significative * * * I occasionally look at “Vatican-watch” sites to get an idea of what is going on. We now read … Continue reading →

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Deborah Gyapong on Being Catholic

Posted on Thursday, 25 April, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

These days, I tend not to bother very much with knowing how my former brethren in the TAC are doing since they went to the RC Church, whether through the Ordinariates or other channels. Deborah Gyapong has always been kind … Continue reading →

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Anglican Catholic Clarity

Posted on Monday, 22 April, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I greatly appreciate what Archbishop Mark Haverland wrote a couple of years ago in The Trinitarian about the position of the ACC in relation to Anglicanorum coetibus. I bring up the subject, not as an attack against the Roman Catholic … Continue reading →

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Conciliarism

Posted on Saturday, 20 April, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have already brought up the subject of Conciliarism in Old Catholic Ecclesiology and Northern Catholicism. Conciliarism was a reforming movement in the European Church from about the fourteenth century. It promoted the view that the highest authority in the Church is … Continue reading →

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