Tag Archives: Protestantism

A Thousand Generations

It is estimated that, among Protestant congregations, 87% of children leave the Christian faith entirely by the time they are eighteen years old. Some do come back, as I understand, but no one should have to "come back" if they … Continue reading

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WWDPD (or "What Would Dr. Pusey Do?")

Recent discussions about the post-July situation in the Church of England (something which will inevitably impact greatly on the situation just across the border in the Church in Wales) have highlighted the fact that any comments we might make now are simply … Continue reading

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Divorce and Remarriage in "Historic Anglicanism" (Part I)

*** UPDATED 06/08/10 9:18 PM EST *** Marital indiscipline seems to afflict all Western Christian churches and bodies to some degree or other, and even to an extent those in the East (the theory and practice of the Eastern Churches, … Continue reading

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Not about Liturgy

I have long thought that ARCIC (the body holding discussions that took place over the last forty years between the Catholic and Anglican Communions) was barking up the wrong tree. Substantial work was done, and a lot of good things … Continue reading

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Book Review: Convinced by the Truth

Editor's Note: In the following review, Dr. Tighe shares a number of details concerning the dialogue between the Traditional Anglican Communion and various organs of the Holy See, which, for various reasons, have yet to appear anywhere online, including on … Continue reading

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Fidei Defensor

To the Reader from Assertio Septem Sacramentorum, or Defense of the Seven Sacraments, published by King Henry VIII of England in 1521. * * * ALTHOUGH I do not rank myself amongst the most Learned and Eloquent; yet (shunning the Stain of … Continue reading

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The Counter Reformation and Anglican Patrimony

I have given one subject quite an amount of thought, that of defining Anglican patrimony in relation with the Counter Reformation patrimony in Catholicism. It seems to me that this point has been narrowly missed in our postings and threads … Continue reading

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Can the Thirty-Nine Articles Function As a Confessional Standard for Anglicans Today?

During the Reformation, and for centuries afterward, Protestant bodies defined their theological stances, towards Catholicism and one another, by means of “Confessions of Faith.” Such Confessions were issued by the Lutherans, the Reformed and the Radicals alike, and some Protestant … Continue reading

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Ecclesiastical Sundries

The Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X (FSSPX / SSPX), Bishop Bernard Fellay, says that an agreement with the Vatican is not possible in "human terms." As usual, it's difficult to know what this means.  Does … Continue reading

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A Fragile Thread

Fr. Anthony Reader-Moore, SSC has responded to Robert Ian William's most recent polemical feature in The Catholic Herald.  Williams had attacked this excellent piece written by Fr. Reader-Moore in defense of the Anglican Patrimony. Anglo-Catholicism: a 19th-century invention or the full … Continue reading

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Reconciling Protestants in Groups of Anglicans

The National Catholic Register is running a new article by Fr. Dwight Longenecker in which he discusses the idea of the future Anglican personal ordinariates as a "bridge" to Rome for evangelical Protestants disenchanted with evangelicalism and searching for a … Continue reading

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Fr. Robert Barron on Authority

Fr. Robert Barron, commenting on Alister McGrath's Christianity's Dangerous Idea, addresses the fundamental issue of authority in the Church.

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