Tag Archives: Fr. Basil Maturin

Fr. Maturin on Assimilating New Truths While Maintaining Equilibrium

In this excerpt from The Price of Unity, Fr. Maturin speaks of the emotional turmoil of entering the Catholic Church.  Here he examines the fear of change and loss and the temptation to make a radical break with one’s past … Continue reading

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The Conversion of St. Paul: Fulfilled, Not Destroyed

Bishop Mercer’s moving address at the ACCC Synod brought to mind the section I had just read in Fr. Basil Maturin’s The Price of Unity, in which he recounts the Conversion of St. Paul. In this section from the first … Continue reading

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Br. Stephen, O.Cist. Joins The Anglo-Catholic!

Br. Stephen Treat, O.Cist. is a monk of the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank in Sparta, WI.  Like many others, his path led from an evangelical childhood in the South to Anglicanism and into the Roman Catholic … Continue reading

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Conversion and the Temptation to Pedantry

Br. Stephen of the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank has again written to offer his latest piece concerning Anglicans (or indeed anyone) coming into the full communion of the Catholic Church and the tendency on the part of … Continue reading

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