Yes, he does: An internationally renowned Anglican bishop and former chaplain to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is leaving the Anglican Church to become a Catholic. Bishop Gavin Ashenden will be received into full communion by Shrewsbury's Bp. Mark Davies on the fourth Sunday of Advent at Shrewsbury Cathedral, England. From the standpoint of the online Anglican-Episcopal world, this …
Benedict XVI on Historical-Critical Scholarship — Ad Orientem
Scripture has been opened up anew by historical-critical scholarship and, I admit, locked up anew as well. It has been opened up anew: thanks to the labors of exegesis we hear the Word fo the Bible in a completely new way in its historical originality, in the variety of a developing and growing history, with […] …
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Anatheism: What Is It, and Do I Have It?
I probably spend more time than I should online following seminary academics. That's not just considering their impact on me: sometimes they bite back, especially if they're of a Reformed background. In any case a series of events has led me to discover something called anatheism, which is the discovery (for want of a better …
That Man in Rome…That Man in the White House
Just saw the tweet at the right. I think it's hilarious that people have started to refer to the Occupant of the See of St. Peter as "that man in Rome." American history buffs will remember that some Republicans, unable to utter his name, used to refer to Franklin D. Roosevelt as "that man in …
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The Coming Continuing Roman Catholic Church — Ad Orientem
“The Burke critique is simple enough. Church teaching on questions like marriage’s indissolubility is supposed to be unchanging, and that’s what he’s upholding: “I haven’t changed. I’m still teaching the same things I always taught and they’re not my ideas.” What is unchanging certainly can’t be altered by an individual pontiff: “The pope is not […] …
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I’m Kristen Karman-Shoemake and This Is How I Mesh — Another Fine Mesh
I was born in Arlington, TX and spent most of my childhood in and around the Fort Worth area. When I was in high school, my family moved to Chattanooga, TN. I then went on to UTK for my undergraduate degree. I didn’t really know what I wanted to do with my life and ended […] …
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Hear the Man who Threw the Pachamama Idols into the Tiber
https://youtu.be/FpCaDxN5q38 I worked for a denominational department whose job was to "release the laity," but this takes it to a whole new level. HT Rorate Caeli
Pope Francis to Bossuet: Hold My Beer — The Bossuet Project
Earlier this year I posted Bossuet’s Elevations on Original Sin, and the last post in the series was on the horrors of idolatry. When I posted this, I thought: this is probably the lowest danger that Bossuet worried about, especially in the West. (We have idolatries of other kinds, but he was talking about the […] …
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Elevations on the deliverance promised, from Adam to the Law: 1, The Promise of the Liberator from the day of the Loss. — The Bossuet Project
It was the very day of our fall that God said to the serpent, our corrupter: I will put eternal enmity between you and the woman, between race and his; she will break your head. First, it is unbelievable that God intended to actually judge or punish the visible serpent, an unconscious animal: it is […] …
They Used to Say Same Thing About the Anglican/Episcopal Blogosphere, Too
The Catholic Archbishop of Dublin unloads on his own church's social media movement/blogosphere: Catholic keyboard warriors who "spend all day attacking and responding" on social media in the belief that they are "defending the integrity of Church teaching" have been sharply criticised by Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin. For those of us who have been …
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