Monthly Archives: December 2012

ACA Bishop Brian Marsh offers a most interesting explanation

Fr. Anthony Chadwick posed the following question via email to Anglican Church in America  (ACA) Bishop Brian Marsh: It would be very useful for me to be able to publish a testimony in retrospect about what the TAC bishops understood … Continue reading

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Some “Peregrinations” from the Toronto Ordinariate group

Our friend Peregrinus-Toronto has put up a couple of recent posts on his Peregrinations blog that make good reading.  Here are excerpts, but be sure to go over to read the entire posts for pictures and videos: The Toronto AU … Continue reading

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The conversation continues at Fr. Chadwick’s blog

Fr. Chadwick writes: What I object to are suggestions that those TAC bishops who did not go through with it have lost all honour and credibility, and that their clergy and faithful are fair game. That is the bottom line. … Continue reading

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A Joyous Christmas Eve at the Annunciation

This is a picture from the reception of our parish into the Catholic Church last April.  Archbishop Terrence Prendergast wore the same gold vestments last night.  Unfortunately, all I had was my phone and my pictures did not come out … Continue reading

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A charming column on Christmas trees

by my friend Peter Stockland. Go read the whole thing at the Catholic Register! My opposition to Christmas trees is, in fact, rooted in cold logic. What, I have always asked, is the point of dragging a tree into the … Continue reading

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Our common history and the Portsmouth blip

The history of the origin of the Ordinariates have yet to be written and for those who came from the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC) and those who remain behind there is one event that remains the real source of contention … Continue reading

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A conversation about Mary

Every year, the Prime Minister hosts a Christmas party for journalists at his residence 24 Sussex Drive.   It’s a fun, festive event where I get to see some of the other Parliamentary Press Gallery members on a social basis. … Continue reading

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The meaning of tolerance and of the word Catholic

Fr. Anthony Chadwick has responded to my post responding to his post.   He writes: I lay it on the line. Here it goes: Anyone calling himself Catholic without being formally in communion with Rome is masquerading. Unless we have converted … Continue reading

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Fr. Anthony Chadwick’s response to that letter from Continuing Bishops

Fr. Anthony Chadwick has an interesting blog and this response to the letter from the Continuing Anglican bishops of the United States to the head of the newer Anglican Church in North America is worth a read. I take issue, … Continue reading

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Most interesting appeal from Continuing Anglican churches

This is an excerpt of an appeal to Bishop Duncan who heads the breakaway Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) from the bishops of various Continuing Anglican churches in the United States.  The whole letter is interesting.  (H/t Fr. Anthony … Continue reading

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