I was expecting an eventual response to my piece Why I Don’t Agree With the Concept of the “Sacrifice of the Mass” and received it from Fr. Greg. You can find it here. In his response, he's shifted the discussion from the purely theological to the ecclesiological, and that brings up many issues. But let …
Women Deacons: The View of “Canon of the Mass” Cipriano Vagaggini
I'm currently in the middle of a series on ancient (and a couple of modern) anaphorae, taken from Cipriano Vagaggini's The Canon of the Mass and Liturgical Reform. It seems that Dom Vagaggini wasn't afraid of controversial topics. Consider this, from a 2003 article on Catholic women deacons: The question of women deacons has been …
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The Canon of the Mass: The Early Roman Canon
The form and structure of liturgies is something that churches which employ these in worship either take for granted or argue over intensely. But very few people understand how a) these came into being or b) how they should be revised or replaced in times of liturgical change. What kind of theology is embodied in …
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The Canon of the Mass: The Anaphora of Hippolytus
The form and structure of liturgies is something that churches which employ these in worship either take for granted or argue over intensely. But very few people understand how a) these came into being or b) how they should be revised or replaced in times of liturgical change. What kind of theology is embodied in …
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An Additional Note to my Roman Catholic Friends on “Think Before You Convert”
Think Before You Convert was, in the wake of the Pope's Apostolic Constitution re the Anglo-Catholics, the most popular place on this blog. It's still a frequented stop. However, I get regular comments from Roman Catholics re my supposed position about the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist and the nature of authority in …
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Rowan Williams, the Pope, and the Nature of the Church
The Ugley Vicar tells us that the Archbishop of Canterbury is calling Rome's bluff: For a man hardly renowned for his robustness, the recent speech given in Rome by the Archbishop of Canterbury was remarkably robust. Of course, it was given partly in response to the announcement from Rome on October 20th of effectively a …
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The Strange and Wonderful Story of Sister Germaine
It's not very often that I do what I would call "heartwarming" stories on this blog. Perhaps I should do more; in the world we live in, we could use a few every now and then. But so many of them are, to put it bluntly, "hokey" or trite. This one is an exception. One …
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Why I Don’t Agree With the Concept of the “Sacrifice of the Mass”
Kim Dwyer took strong exception to my statement in "Think Before You Convert" that "(t)he Catholic view of the Mass as a sacrifice–which is tied up with their view of the church–is unbiblical." Given that this is an important subject (Abu Daoud also dealt with it recently) I think some elucidation is in order. Side …
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“African Anglicans do not need the Pope’s intervention”
Indeed they don't, according to Ugandan Archbishop Henry Orombi: AFRICAN Anglicans do not need the Pope’s intervention over consecration of gay bishops, the Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, Henry Luke Orombi, has said. Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday announced new initiatives allowing Anglicans to enter full communion with the Catholic Church while preserving elements …
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Time to Fish or Cut Bait: The Road to Rome Just Got Easier for Anglicans
It's not just a road for Hillaire Belloc, either: In a move with potentially sweeping implications for relations between the Catholic church and some 80 million Anglicans worldwide, the Vatican has announced the creation of new ecclesiastical structures to absorb disaffected Anglicans wishing to become Catholics. The structures will allow those Anglicans to hold onto …
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