Standing on My Head: Latest

Friday, June 03, 2011

Latest

Here is my latest article for Crisis website. It's on the Anglican Ordinariate.

6 comments:

Sylvio (dszg) said...: Hello, I'm Gergely Szilvay from Hungary, and I'm a journalist for Magyar Kurír (Hungarian Courier), the half-offical website of the hungarian catholic church. I'm also a blogger. I have started to write about catholic blogs, and today I have written about yours:
http://www.magyarkurir.hu/hirek/blogfigyelo-standing-my-head-csalados-longenecker-atya-blogja
Have a nice day!; 6:43 AM
Edwin said...: In fact, dear Father, five bishops: besides the three created Monsignori there are two others of us, David Silk (onetime Bishop of Ballarat in Australia) and me, Msgr Newton's predecessor as Bishop of Richborough. All five of us were, according to Anglicanorum Coetibus &c, to participate in the formation of the Ordinariate - which we are all trying to do, in our various ways, subject to the direction of Keith our Ordinary.; 12:53 PM
Anthony Brett Dawe said...: I like: 'the Anglican church MAY morph into something unreconizably Anglican'

uh... like... may?

y'all are nothing if not way way behind the times not to say the WAY of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ

and, as ye know good Padre, Mnsr. Patrick Burke and Prof Lewis Ayres Doge of Durham, et moi thought up the 'ordinariate' in all of twenty minutes in the common room of Canmore Catholic Society, St Andrews Scotland 1987.

oui, c'est vrai.

Why has it taken a mere thirty years to get round to such common sense? 'glacial' is an understatement of epic porportions.

Hey Dwight, yesterday I'm sitting reading the greatest columnist of Earth, i.e. Damien Thompson of the Torygraph along the Cherwell in Christ Church meadow.

Drawing a crownd all piccie taking and watching me drink Coke, read the papers, and smoke a bowl of Balkan Sobranie.

Can't fault auld St Andreans on 'style' I guess.

pip, pip; 5:54 AM
flyingvic said...: Something must be fairly seriously wrong here - I almost find myself sharing a thought with ABD!

For something to be 'unrecognizably Anglican' there has to be something 'recognizably Anglican' to begin with; and since the CofE was from its inception - and quite by design - the broadest church imaginable, to write as if there used to be a single image that now is in danger of changing rather misses the point. There have always been in the CofE - and I daresay always will be - those who regard themselves as more Catholic than the Romans and who want nothing at all to do with the Ordinariate, those who hold 'sola scriptura' as their watchword, and those who sit somewhere in the middle.

'Twas ever thus. I rmember listening to an ancient anglo-catholic priest, ordained in the 1920s, who in a solemn procession of clergy through the streets was to be placed next in line to a low church vicar who intended to wear a surplice over his brown tweed suit and top it off with a bowler hat. Now what would Mantilla have to say about that?; 8:50 AM
Anthony Brett Dawe said...: t'was NOT ALWAYS THUS

We used to hold to the

39 Articles

not no more... so don't dissimulate; 10:18 AM
pilgrim said...: Bravo!! Encouragement is needed for desiring protestants to feel welcomed at the Catholic Church. I have visited 3 different parishes in my area. I have found the worship experience to be wonderful. Beyond attending mass it is difficult to know how to proceed. What now?; 2:40 PM