Tag Archives: Catholic Church

(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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Were we really Catholics?

Posted on 29/03/2021 by Scott Anderson

Soon after the vote in the General Synod of the Church of England in 1992 to ordain women to the priesthood, a colleague of mine expressed his sense of anger: “Once I was a bitter Catholic; now I am just … Continue reading →

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Holy Mass from the Divine Worship Missal (the background)

Posted on 29/04/2020 by Scott Anderson

    I imagine that many of us during the confinement will have set ourselves a task or project. I have several, including learning to say the Ordinariate Use of the Mass. Perhaps you are surprised by this, but I … Continue reading →

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Making – and keeping – new Catholics

Posted on 04/06/2016 by Scott Anderson

A new report by the Catholic Research Forum (an initiative of the Benedict XVI centre at St Mary’s University, Twickenham) has something to tell us about evangelisation. 7.7 per cent of the 3.8 million Catholics in the UK are ‘converts’ … Continue reading →

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Please don’t try and wear the burse on your head

Posted on 30/09/2015 by Scott Anderson

Period drama nowadays goes to extreme lengths to ensure accuracy. In every area, that is, save the ecclesiastical. There, I’m afraid, one is still likely to see a scene from a Jane Austen novel with the clergyman conducting a funeral … Continue reading →

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A Saturday Farewell & a Sunday Celebration

Posted on 29/09/2015 by Scott Anderson

On the last Sunday of September the Diocese of Amiens in northern France celebrates in honour of its first Bishop, St Firmin, whose relics are kept in the cathedral (which is, I think, the largest Gothic cathedral in France). In the parishes … Continue reading →

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‘Songs of Praise’ does it again!

Posted on 03/08/2015 by Scott Anderson

Surely a trailer for ‘The Moral Maze’? But no – there it was in the ‘Sunday Telegraph’ guide to Radio and Television (Sunday 2 August 2015): Songs of Praise A woman who acted as a surrogate mother for her sister … Continue reading →

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Another model for Ordinariate life and mission

Posted on 16/04/2015 by Scott Anderson

In the early days of the Ordinariate I tried to identify some ‘models’ which might be appropriate for groups with their pastors. My initial experience was of the ‘church-planting’ model, successfully applied at the Most Precious Blood at Borough in … Continue reading →

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The setting of the Liturgy

Posted on 20/02/2015 by Scott Anderson

In the 1930’s the Kelham Fathers built the Great Chapel for their monastery and theological college near Newark-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire. The architect was Charles Clayton Thompson, and to my knowledge he built no other churches. Yet it is one of … Continue reading →

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Alpha for Catholics – be just a bit cautious

Posted on 25/01/2015 by Scott Anderson

Just after Christmas a good friend and member of the Ordinariate wrote this to me: ” We have started Alpha training again, I am not convinced that this is the way to bring lapsed Catholics back to church. I have … Continue reading →

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