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And in shock news, the pope would seem to be catholic

April 2, 2010
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Checking the news this evening, I was a little surprised to see one of the main stories on the BBC’s front page. What exactly did they think the pope would be doing on Good Friday that would make this a headline? And in further shock news to come tomorrow, read the report on what bears [...]

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Making a bid for the non-latinate Catholic

March 23, 2010

Bosco Peters has a helpful reflection on the progress (or lack of it) towards the introduction of the new Roman Catholic Missal. In my view it is extremely unfortunate for our English speaking RC friends that the US culture wars, where they focussed on gender-neutral or inclusive language, led to an argument around the missal. [...]

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Anglicans disunited, and certainly not uniate

March 9, 2010

Peter Carrell continues his attempts to find eirenic ways forward for the fractious Anglican Communion, having read Melbourne assistant bishop Peter Elliott’s article on Damian Thompson’s blog. In that article he seeks to argue that the Anglican Ordinariate is not much different from a Uniate Church or an eparchy (as uniates are known when they’re [...]

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You’re meant to ask questions, you dork

November 10, 2009

Journalists are meant to tell stories, but before telling those stories, in the process of telling them, and after they’ve told them, they’re meant to ask questions. Far too many journalists have forgotten to do this. As I was looking over back-posts on the Pope’s offer to poach Anglicans (how the Inquisition has changed from [...]

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Translating Pope Benedict’s Apostolic Constitution into plain English

November 9, 2009

I’ve been encouraged to comment on the Vatican’s (presumably strongly Benedict driven) regulations for admitting renegade Anglicans to Rome. It’s a bit hard to know exactly what to say, since in some ways it’s a bit hard to know exactly what they mean. I’ve had a go at translating the main provisions. In each instance [...]

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A most un-Christian cynicism

October 24, 2009

Mine that is. Why can I not shake from my mind the coincidence that the only Church of England priest who has so far said he will become Roman Catholic, Fr Geoffrey Kirk, has also noted that he is approaching retirement. It will, no doubt, be much more comfortable to be a Roman Catholic priest [...]

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Rome and “traditional” Anglicans: what Rowan should have said?

October 20, 2009

Rowan Williams was manoeuvred today into a joint press conference to bless the latest efforts in Roman imperialism. He seems to me to have put the most charitable gloss on that he could have managed, while not quite hiding his frustration at the lack of consultation. The best source of links to many diverse opinions [...]

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