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THE PRESENT OPPORTUNITY

Posted on 12/10/2025 by Scott Anderson

A PRESENTATION IN PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE MASS CELEBRATED ACCORDING TO DIVINE WORSHIP – THE MISSAL OF THE ORDINARIATES With the creation of the Ordinariates for receiving Anglicans into the full communion of the Catholic Church, together with the publication of … Continue reading →

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The ordination of women: is history being re-written?

Posted on 06/06/2024 by Scott Anderson

I am always grateful to Fr Paul Benfield for his ‘Window’ into the Church of England which he writes for the Ordinariate Portal. I hope he will not mind if I take some quotes from the June magazine where he … Continue reading →

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Fifty years on from the closure of Kelham

Posted on 22/02/2024 by Scott Anderson

I am indebted to Anne Malins who e-mailed me the article from the Church Times by Bishop Christopher Morgan on Kelham – which closed as a Theological College of the Church of England fifty years ago. I have sometimes claimed … Continue reading →

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Infant baptism, the Catechumenate – and Conversion to Christ

Posted on 22/08/2022 by Scott Anderson

It was the seminary/theological college and the curacies which have informed, right through their lives, the attitudes and methods of many priests. Cartainly it’s true for me and for many (ex) Anglicans. So all my life I have struggled with … Continue reading →

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Music in the liturgy – in France

Posted on 16/08/2022 by Scott Anderson

One of my kind readers has asked me to continue the article I wrote last week by describing and comparing the music we use in the liturgy in France. Please realise that my observations are limited to this diocese and … Continue reading →

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When did we stop kneeling?

Posted on 11/08/2022 by Scott Anderson

My grandmother (born in 1891) was brought up as a Baptist though not baptised in adolescence. In fact she was baptised before her marriage to my grandfather, at St Mary’s Weymouth, a stronghold of low-church Anglicanism. But my grandmother knew … Continue reading →

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Music in the liturgy – a new beginning or the end of an era?

Posted on 09/08/2022 by Scott Anderson

I read with interest of the publication of a revised edition of the English Hymnal towards the end of this year. I shall certainly add it to my collection (of English Hymnals) with the 1906 & 1933 editions, the New … Continue reading →

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Extended Communion – a new take

Posted on 13/04/2020 by Scott Anderson

I remember the frustration of Anglo-Catholics some years ago when the General Synod decided to tackle the issue of ‘extended Communion’. For the best part of 100 years an increasing number of parishes had been ‘reserving’ the Sacrament, so that … Continue reading →

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Catholic – or Christian?

Posted on 30/06/2015 by Scott Anderson

Last week I stopped off, mid-morning, to have a cup of coffee in Wimbledon. The cheerful waitress asked me if I was a Catholic priest. Then she went on to tell me that she was a Catholic, but her friend … Continue reading →

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Catholic attitudes on abortion

Posted on 11/06/2015 by Scott Anderson

Since my  Catholic ordination I have said Mass on a regular basis for the Good Counsel Network, which promotes Catholic pro-life teaching , and gives practical and emotional support to couples and single mothers choosing not to abort an unplanned pregnancy. … Continue reading →

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