Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
As some of you know, I teach at Lee University in their new Engineering program. Recently I reserved a computer lab to administer a test, and was regaled with the above, from St. John Chrystostom's Pascal Homily. It was written on the white board (the students were amazed it was in cursive, I guess I …
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And more acrimonious too: It’s getting downright nasty and legal. ACNA bishops led by Bishop Phil Ashey contend that the charges of misconduct (but not of a sexual nature) laid at the feet of Bishop Derek Jones of the Special Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy (SJAFC) are grounds for an inhibition. The complaints …
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There's been quite a lot of pushback to the election (?) of Sarah Mullally as Archbishop of Canterbury, much of which concentrates of the fact that she's a woman (at least that's defined, no mean feat these days) and this breaks with the rest of the Anglican Communion, with Rome, with Constantinople, Moscow, and many …
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In a recent post by the North American Anglican entitled "The Drama of Confession," the author goes into a long Anglican description of the importance and benefits of confession, with emphasis (justified) on the Anglican "general confessions" that we see in traditional Anglican prayer books. For all of the detail he goes into, he misses …
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It's been a while since I've been actively posting to this site, and in looking at my stats an old favourite page has been active again: Think Before You Convert. It's an overview of why you should (or shouldn't) convert to Roman Catholicism or, if you're there why you might want to take your leave. As …
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From his seminary position, no less: Two prominent theologians who critiqued what they saw as doctrinal ambiguity under the late Pope Francis have been fired from their longtime posts at the Archdiocese of Detroit’s major seminary by the local archbishop, the Register has confirmed. Archbishop Edward Weisenburger removed Ralph Martin and Eduardo Echeverria from their …
I didn't mean for it to be a response, but while putting together my post Mary, Protestant and Catholic the North American Anglican was busy with this topic with two posts: Mary in the Anglican Tradition by William Jenkins; and Another Look at St. Mary the Virgin in the Anglican Tradition by Richard Tarsitano, which is …
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In my wanderings on X I was directed towards an interesting document: Who Is My Mother? The Role and Status of the Mother of Jesus in the New Testament and in Roman Catholicism by one E. Svendsen. It's especially interesting for me since his first degree came from Tennessee Temple University/University of Tennessee at Knoxville. …
https://northamanglican.com/in-what-sense-the-eucharist-is-a-sacrifice-commentary-on-browne-article-xxxi/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-what-sense-the-eucharist-is-a-sacrifice-commentary-on-browne-article-xxxi As is their custom, Anglicans tend to use a complicated explanation for a Eucharistic doctrine when a simple one will do. I laid out the simpler explanation in my post Why I Don’t Agree With the Concept of the “Sacrifice of the Mass” : Tying the real presence of Our Lord in the Eucharist and …
This morning I was regaled with a post from ourCOG (whose posts I have reviewed before) entitled "Strange Catholic Days in Pentecostalism." As is their habit, they've evidently cut and paste from other places, it's two pieces posted in one. To keep things simple I'll respond to the second. The post itself focuses on Ash …
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