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Standing on My Head
“A scene is often most clearly seen when it is seen upside down.” G.K.Chesterton
A New Marian Hymn
As long as I've been a Catholic I've been critical of the fact that we have so few decent hymns to be used at Marian Feasts. Either it is a soloist trying their best [...]
St Martin the Missionary
Today is the memorial of St Martin of Tours and he will be most remembered and preached about concerning the famous episode in which, as a young Roman soldier, he gave his cloak to [...]
Who Wrote the Gospels and When?
The other day I indulged in a bit of a rant against the mainstream Bible scholars who have made an industry of de-bunking the gospels and trying to show them to be late compositions [...]
The Conflicts of Converts
I was received into the full communion of the Catholic Church over thirty years ago. I had been brought up in a conservative fundamentalist home, became and Anglican, went to Oxford to study theology, [...]
The Essential Anglican Difficulty
This week the leaders of GAFCON - the Global Anglican Future Conference-- declared their organization to be the Anglican Communion. Severing the historic ties to Canterbury and the Church of England, the leaders of [...]
The Present State of the Church of England
It is now thirty years since I resigned as a priest of the Church of England to enter into full communion with the Catholic Church. I was one of nearly 800 Anglican priests who [...]
