Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
One of the reasons why people join churches like Anglican, Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches (especially the last one) is to have a church which can have continuity with the "Fathers of the Church." For Roman Catholics, one of the four "Doctors of the Church" (the most important of the Fathers) is St. Jerome, the …
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A couple of days ago I took the Anglo-Catholics to task for their ambiguous position relative to Roman Catholicism and how they needed to decide whether they are in or out of the "true church." It works both ways. Now we see that that magnificent island which filled two continents with those who wanted or …
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The announcement that the Traditional Anglican Communion seeks full union with Rome isn't really news. It's been their objective for a long time. The obvious dumb question here is, "why don't they just swim the Tiber and get it over with?" Part of the reason may lie in the fact that the Roman Catholic Church--wrongly, …
In his reply to my last post, Robert Easter makes the following comment on the Holy Communion: The earliest records show that weekly Communion was standard from the very first. John Wesley stressed it as still being important for the Methodists to take it weekly, and he took it several times during the week. That …
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My friend Robert Easter at Sanctifusion has thrown me some very deep questions in the course of a discussion: I was talking about you to a young man who is in the process of shifting form Church of God to Anglican. Something about the ancient ties and the Nicene writers. When we look at it, …
Vatican Representative Tones Down One True Church Statement. But why should he? This issue is only complicated because we live in a world where statements of any kind which point out our differences are considered "politically incorrect." The Catholic Church's position on this matter is no different now than in 2000 when the current Pontiff, …
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The revelation of Mother Teresa's Crisis of Faith needs to be understood in light of her emphasis on the Passion in Roman Catholic spirituality. She wrote in 1951 that the Passion was the only aspect of Jesus' life that she was interested in sharing: "I want to ... drink ONLY [her emphasis] from His chalice …
Back in the early 1980's, I was involved in a Catholic Charismatic prayer group. We were under a great deal of pressure, some of which was of our own making and some of which came from a Church which didn't really care much for what we were doing. It was also the days of "if …
In the course of all of the social, political and other rants that fill this blog, it's easy to forget that a major source of visitors is our companion site vulcanhammer.net, the site for geotechnical and marine engineering downloads. In the course of those links this site received one from the website The works of …
One of the more popular features of this site is the Anglican Calendar Script, which announces the current liturgical event (Sunday, saint's day, etc.) according to the traditional Anglican liturgical scheme. I've gotten requests to expand it to include other liturgical calendars (TEC, RCC, etc.) Well, it looks like another has risen to the challenge. …
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