From time to time I have a little moan of grief on this blog about what England has come to.  Let me put on the record that events like the one pictured and described here give me great hope for old Blighty. It is a ‘Chaps Olympics’ founded for fellows who have no interest in sport and lament the horrible culture of our age. Check it out and ‘ave a bit of a laff.’ It’s daffy, eccentric, English humor at it’s... Read more

Sorry. The Biker Biretta, like the Anglican via media, is nothing but a good idea. For all you biretta junkies, here is a shot of me in my biretta with the servers at St Joseph’s Catholic School. Read more

One of the things I love about the Benedictine Way is that it is so locked into everyday life. Not for Benedict the intensity of mystical paths of perfection, creative meditation techniques and ascetical programs of prayer. Instead he expects his followers to find God within the ordinary round of work, prayer and study. The three eventually combine so that prayer becomes work and study and study becomes work and prayer and work becomes prayer and study. Thus the mind,... Read more

Presiding Bishop of ECUSA, Katherine Jefferts Schori gave a speech in England of unusual sensitivity, depth and theological and historical insight. She says opponents of women’s ordination, “Just don’t like women.” It’s reported here. Read more

The Path to Rome – Modern Journeys to the Catholic Church was my first book. It is a collection of mostly Anglican conversion stories which was put together just after the Church of England’s decision to ordain women. The majority of the contributors are former Anglican clergy. Graham Leonard, the former Anglican Bishop of London is features as is Newman biographer, Fr Ian Ker, myself, Cyprian Blamires and others. You can purchase a copy from my website here, or you... Read more

Damian Thompson blogs here about something called The Fellowship of St Gregory the Great. This, he claims, is the proposal being put to the Vatican by the Anglican traditionalist bishops. It will be a fellowship presided over by a Catholic bishop. (Bishop Alan Hopes–a former Anglo– Catholic priest now an auxiliary Bishop of Westminster–would be an obvious choice) This fellowship would be a kind of ‘church within a church’. Anglo Catholics would come over en masse, the Church of England... Read more

…I’d ask Bishop Alan Hopes, a former Anglo Catholic priest who is now auxiliary of Westminster to head up a personal prelature to help integrate Anglicans worldwide into the Catholic Church. He (along with a team he’d choose) could organize their instruction, the re-training of their clergy, regularize marriages, grant dispensations from the vow of celibacy. He could also organize a clearing house of available former Anglican married priests so they could serve the English speaking Catholic Church worldwide. If... Read more

This message from Anglican Bishop Edwin Barnes is astonishing. Bishop Barnes was one of the so called Flying Bishops in the Anglican church. (He’s now retired) These men were appointed to minister to Anglo Catholic congregations and clergy who could not accept the ministry of women as priests. The Church Union is a confederation of Anglo Catholics within the Church of England. Bishop Barnes speaks very clearly about the end of Anglo Catholicism. He recognizes that the Church of England... Read more

Link here to a website where conservative Anglicans write and comment on the crisis in their church. This site is a blog by liberal Anglicans on the issues of the day. Notice they call their site ‘Thinking Anglicans’. I love this. It is so typical of the liberal elite. They are the ones who ‘think’. All the rest of us are dummies who can’t or won’t think. The other liberal blog with an entertaining name is this one which is called ‘Inclusive... Read more

In 1994 I was an Anglican priest on the Isle of Wight. I had a wife and two young children. We lived in a beautiful Victorian vicarage in the country. I had two beautiful Norman churches to look after. (Brading Church pictured above) My church was growing. My congregation were loving and kind. I wanted to stay there forever. Then the Church of England pulled the rug out from under me, and I began to plan a big adventure: swimming... Read more