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Where did it start to go wrong?

Posted on 19/07/2021 by Scott Anderson

In 1995 I was having dinner with a group of (Roman) Catholic clergy, including one who had been recently received from the Church of England. He was still pretty angry and predicting the imminent collapse of the C of E. … Continue reading →

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New French Missal

Posted on 28/06/2021 by Scott Anderson

At long last the Catholic Church in France (and the other francophone countries) is to have its new translation of the Missal, which comes into use on Advent Sunday 2021. At last I shall not be the only priest in … Continue reading →

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Communion on the tongue – why the controversy?

Posted on 23/06/2021 by Scott Anderson

Last Sunday I was confronted at the moment of Holy Communion by a young woman insisting on receiving the consecrated host on the tongue. Currently this is not permitted in France, as part of the COVID precautions. In the liturgical … Continue reading →

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Gender – nature or nurture?

Posted on 23/06/2021 by Scott Anderson

Over the weekend 19/20 June there were reports that the CEO of Stonewall, Nancy Kelley, had made a startling comparison. She asserted that those who held the view that gender is biologically fixed and cannot be altered, were akin to … Continue reading →

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English music & English Churches – trying to define the patrimony

Posted on 09/06/2021 by Scott Anderson

Between the end of the 19th century until the 1970’s English music enjoyed a period of greatness perhaps not seen since the time of Purcell, maybe even since the flowering of English music under the Tudors. Composers such as Elgar, … Continue reading →

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Sheffield: a remarkable story of evangelism

Posted on 05/05/2021 by Scott Anderson

The Revd Paul Benfield, writing in the Ordinariate Portal magazine, comments thus on the current reorganisation of the Anglican diocese of Sheffield: ” … the Diocese of Sheffield is to have four further Associate Archdeacon Transition Enablers towork with two … Continue reading →

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(Anglo) Catholic Renewal – Loughborough & Caister

Posted on 01/05/2021 by Scott Anderson

A friend of mine has been reading ‘Catholics in Crisis’ by Francis Penhale. Written in 1986 it was part of a Mowbray’s series on the Church of England. (At one time I had another book in the same series, ‘Evangelicals … Continue reading →

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War graves – and racism!

Posted on 25/04/2021 by Scott Anderson

My great uncle, Frank Anderson, died of his wounds in the Great War. His body is buried in the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery at Aubigny-sur-Artois in the Nord departement in France. Here in the Somme is the Chinese Cemetery at … Continue reading →

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Entering the Catholic Church – Catechumenate, Reception, Infant Baptism …

Posted on 20/04/2021 by Scott Anderson

The title of this post indicates the three ways in which people become Catholic Christians. But there is a lack of coherence, a mismatch, if you like, between the three. Research has shown that a substantial of people become Catholics … Continue reading →

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Praying in troubled times

Posted on 18/04/2021 by Scott Anderson

On Good Friday a special intercession was added to the Solemn Prayers of the Liturgy. Here is the prayer for use with the Ordinary Form: Let us pray also for all those who suffer the consequences of the current pandemic, … Continue reading →

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