Monthly Archives: August 2012

The Anglo-Catholic blog is officially on hiatus now, first with Fr. Christopher Phillips announcement that he was taking a break, then with moderator Christian Campbell’s announcement. First of all, I want to thank Christian Campbell for creating and hosting the … Continue reading →

Fr. Anthony Chadwick has a long post over at his blog rehashing the history of the Traditional Anglican Communion and what happened in 2007 —coming on five years ago—when the College of Bishops of the TAC signed the historic Portsmouth … Continue reading →

My correspondent Silent Majority Member #1  sent me this most interesting critique of the post in Psallite Sapienter that  I linked to recently that criticizes the liturgy in the Book of Common Prayer. SMM1 writes: We are all familiar with critiques … Continue reading →

For all my readers who are interested in liturgy, the Australian blog Psallite Sapienter takes a look at the 1662 Prayer Book and then the Australian Prayer Book to see whether what of Anglican Patrimony meets the Catholic test. One … Continue reading →

From my story published today in the Catholic Register   OTTAWA – A religious freedom expert warns the Parti Quebecois leader’s proposed Charter of Secularism should the PQ win Quebec’s provincial election Sept. 4 would violate the Charter and push … Continue reading →

From Andrew McGowan, warden of Trinity College at the University of Melbourne, this assessment of the Apostolic Constitution coming on three years since it was first announced.  My emphases: When the idea of an Anglican Ordinariate was announced in September … Continue reading →

In the rush yesterday to get my cooler, a change of clothes and lawn chairs into the car before church yesterday, I forgot to bring my camera to the parish picnic yesterday afternoon. I did bring my BlackBerry and took … Continue reading →

 I have pierced ears.  Almost every woman I know has pierced ears.  But now some of my women friends have several piercings in their ears, or a tiny stud in their nose.  Some also have tattoos.  I remember back in … Continue reading →

One of my close female relatives was turned away years ago from an Orthodox Church service in the United States because she was wearing slacks.   These were dress slacks under a long dressy coat, but nonetheless she was not … Continue reading →

A friend of mine, Colin Kerr of TheTheologyofDad created a blog aggregator for the Society of Canadian Catholic Bloggers that keeps a running blog roll updating posts by Catholic bloggers in Canada.  It is always a source of interesting posts … Continue reading →