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The Halifax School & the Fallacy at the Heart of Anglicanism

A BRIEF HISTORY

Richard Upsher Smith Jr.

This is a tale of a well-organized and lofty effort by theologians, parish clergy, and laymen to recover the essence of Anglicanism in Canada.

Preaching Christ Customized

NEW OXFORD NOTEBOOK

Pieter Vree

To the list of things Jesus could have been but wasn’t, there is now one more to add: A new movement would recast Our Lord as a transgender woman.

The St. Louis Congress: Forty-Five Years Later

A HISTORY OF SPLITSVILLE

William J. Tighe

One strain of Anglicanism, the Anglo-Catholic, was privileged over the others and contained ambiguities that were to cause disagreement and strife.

Why a Self-Indulgent Age Needs a Rough Religion

VITAL WORKS RECONSIDERED, #53 & #54

Kenneth Colston

Penance is man’s pitiful part in cooperation with grace, an extreme method necessary to combat the difficulties posed by the passion and the pride of man.

Walker Percy, the Episcopal Church & Kierkegaard’s “Apostle”

ON SPEAKING WITH AUTHORITY

Thomas H. Hubert

Kierkegaard’s concept of “the Apostle” influenced Percy’s presentation of character and theological insight in his fiction.

Love on Trial

NEW OXFORD NOTEBOOK

Pieter Vree

The Episcopal Church contorts its theology to conform to the broader culture, but the culture has no real use for a Christianity remade in its image.

An Introduction to North American High Toryism

Charles A. Coulombe

Nothing shows the ultimate bankruptcy of classical liberalism more than the complete utilitarianism that dominates all realms of life, reaching far beyond infanticide.

A Letter from a Concerned Episcopalian

TO "THE ANSWER PRIEST"

Edward B. Connolly

About six years ago, the Vicar took to the pulpit on a Sunday morning and dropped a bomb. He told us that the time had come for him to come out of the closet.

Our Fortieth Anniversary

EDITORIAL

The Anglican Conundrum

Same-sex marriage is causing deep and possibly irreparable division in the Anglican Communion, the third-largest Christian communion in the world.

What Does the Anglican Patrimony Have to Offer the Church?

RE-APPROPRIATING THE SUBJECTIVE WITH THE OBJECTIVE

Richard Upsher Smith Jr.

The Prayer Book tradition might well assist the Church in welcoming home those who wander in exile.

Blueprint for a Catholic Future?

RALPH ADAMS CRAM & THE ANGLO-PAPALISTS

Charles A. Coulombe

Ralph Adams Cram saw that our faith must be placed first in any consideration of what we are to do in a practical manner.

A Slow-Motion Implosion

The recent history of the Anglican Communion shows that shedding virtually all of its distinctively Christian moral teachings in order to achieve "relevance" has disastrous results.

Dances With Wolves, Vatican Edition

The days of trusting what's going on deep behind the scenes in chanceries and in the Roman curia are over. Transparency is what's needed, not blind trust in some broken bureaucracy.

What Is the Anglican Patrimony?

UNDERSTANDING A GOODLY HERITAGE

Martha C. Eischen

When one walks into an Anglican church, especially one in which traditional worship is practiced, one gets a distinct feeling of the presence of the Lord.

Incredible Shrinking Churches

Some mainline Protestant denominations are in rapid decline because they have no message that is discernibly different from the secular culture.

Sheldon Vanauken Remembered

FROM OUT OF C.S. LEWIS'S LONG SHADOW

Chene Richard Heady

The full depth of his literary case for faith cannot be gathered from 'A Severe Mercy' alone, which deliberately narrates only the first half of his life.

Mary Tudor & the Dawn of the Counter-Reformation

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

The convictions of many "ardent young intellectuals" who fled to Louvain or Douai would merge seamlessly into wider movements for reforms.

City of Confusion - Part II

Just when we were beginning to think that things couldn't get any more schizoid in the Anglican Communion, things are getting, well, more schizoid.

Two Dubious Anniversaries

C.S. LEWIS & T.S. ELIOT ON CONTRACEPTION

Gregory K. Laughlin

Neither Lewis nor Eliot was willing to condemn all uses of artificial contraception, yet both had obvious concerns about the moral implications of its use.

If Only the Anglicans Had Listened

PIKE OR PIUS?

Andrew M. Seddon

It behooves all of us, both clergy and laity, to recognize Modernism's subtle and not so subtle influence and counter it with prayer and adherence to sound doctrine.

Which Side Are You On?

The practical effect of the Pope's Anglicanorum Coetibus has been to crystallize the significant differences between modern Anglicanism and Holy Mother Church.

Lifeboats on the Tiber

Anglican prelates are already dropping hints that they are seriously considering taking up Pope Benedict's offer to help them across the Tiber.

Two Tracks to 'Communion'

What might the Archbishop of Canterbury's "two-track" model for the Anglican Communion look like at the local level?

City of Confusion

Some say the demise of Anglicanism truly began in the 1530s when King Henry VIII "nationalized" the Catholic Church in England.

Clandestine 'Communion'

Why does the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury feel it necessary to hold a "secret" Communion service with gay clergy?

Integrity or a Lie?

The Anglican Church of England would no doubt be close to shutting down if it weren't for "gay" and lesbian clergy.

The Anglican Use in the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church

GUEST COLUMN

James S. Blankenship

Many Anglo-Catholics who convert to the Roman Catholic Church are disappointed with what they find in the average Roman Catholic parish.

Absolutely Null & Utterly Void

According to Pope Leo XIII, Anglican Orders are "absolutely null and utterly void." That makes the Anglo-Catholic "Eucharist" invalid, too.

Bishop Vicky & Bishop Gumby

It's luv, luv, luv that makes the world go round, and who cares what comes after.

Must We Now Be Leery of Anglican Converts?

Might the Golden Age of Anglican converts be coming to an end?

"Do You Have to Say 'And God Bless You'?"

A revealing vignette about the priorities of the Episcopal Church...

Bible-Burners

GUEST COLUMN

Dwight Longenecker

The Protestant Reformers' revolution was extremist, not unlike that of the Taliban, as exemplified by their zeal for destruction.

Special Breeds & Lesser Breeds

It would appear that homosexuals are a special breed entitled to special privileges in the Episcopal Church.

God the Father, the Elephantine God — Whatever

There are still Catholic bishops who believe that a Third Vatican Council could authorize priestesses and bishopettes.

The Non Serviam of the Episcopal Church: Unsex Me!

GUEST COLUMN

Larry A. Carstens

The Catholic Church will never capitulate to the times, and those among her members who do generally do not remain within her for long.

A Letter From a Concerned Episcopalian

TOLERANCE FOR VAMPIRES

Edward B. Connolly

The Vicar reminded us that the Anglican Communion embraces a wide variety of lifestyles and said the time had come for him to come out of the closet.

Simony in the Church of England

The Anglicans has fallen on hard times, both in terms of membership and finances.

Newman, an “Apostate”?

Stanley L. Jaki

Arthur Schlesinger said the most "tenacious tradition of paranoic agitation in American history has been anti-Catholicism." This book is a product of it.

An Anglo-Catholic Tale

MAY WE LEARN, SOONER RATHER THAN LATER

Charles A. Coulombe

For many a Protestant who would never have been able to make the jump to Rome immediately, Anglo-Catholicism has served as a halfway house.

Anglicanism, Catholicism & The Significance of the "Anglican Use" in The Catholic Church

THE DIASPORA OF TRADITIONAL ANGLICANS

William J. Tighe

To Anglicans, healthy Anglican Use parishes offer an appropriation of all that is best in the Catholic patrimony of Anglicanism.

The Malines Conversations & What Was Malign There

A CHAPTER IN THE ILLUSION OF REUNITING CANTERBURY WITH ROME

Stanley L. Jaki

Keep in mind St. Paul’s dire warning that heresies would of necessity come so that the genuine faith of the elect may come to light all the more strongly.

The Death of Catholic England

William J. Tighe

The Reformation was received by the great mass of Englishmen with reluctance, resentment, and resistance. Catholic England did not “pass away”; it was murdered.

The Astronomical Cost of Priestesses In the Church of England

FEMINISM RULES — AND RUINS

Tom Watkins

Any full-time Church of England clergyman who worked for at least five years prior to 1992 was entitled to compensation if he resigned over women's ordination.

On the Road to Oblivion.

When fewer and fewer men enter a profession, does it become marginalized?

'Mere Christianity' as Merely Protestant

A RESPONSE TO THOMAS STORCK

S.M. Hutchens

The idea attempts to describe the signs of the Church in its wounded state, a state with difficulties that could be far better dealt with if no schisms had occurred.

Newman: Myths & Facts

WAS HE 'ECUMENICAL' OR NOT ?

Stanley L. Jaki

The view that one can find encouragement in the writings of the Catholic Newman for the reunion of Churches is a mighty myth.

'Anglican Use' Catholic Parishes

A PLACE HAS BEEN PREPARED

Charles M. Wilson

We may see increasing numbers of Anglicans coming to recognize that what they are seeking can be found only in full communion with the Successor of Peter.

Is There Such a Thing as "Mere Christianity"?

BY WHAT AUTHORITY DOES C.S. LEWIS PONTIFICATE?

Thomas Storck

Implicit in the 'mere Christianity' notion is a denial of the supreme importance of the Catholic faith as the complete revelation of God.

The Church of England, The Defiled “Panther”

William J. Tighe

Anne Barbeau Gardiner shows "that Dryden’s poem has a grand and unified design that has hitherto gone unnoticed.”

The Great Realignment of 2004-2012: The Catholic Church Splits, The Episcopal Church Triumphs

LOOKING BACKWARD FROM YEAR 2015

Lee Penn

My Episcopal Church Has Surrendered

GUEST COLUMN

James Cavanagh

The Wolf in Our Midst

EDITORIAL

Dale Vree

It's Not the Episcopal Church Anymore

NEO-PAGANISM: OUT OF THE BROOM CLOSET

Lee Penn

The Catechism — like the Ten Commandments and Jesus’ injunctions against lust — reduces ECUSA’s sexuality resolution to cinders.

Some Are More Diverse Than Others

Too many seminarians these days are too outspokenly traditional.

You Can't Have It Both Ways

Let Rome be Rome, and let the ecumenical chips fall where they may.

Newman, the Real Presence & The Tabernacle

Richard Geraghty

When Newman speaks of his happy surprise at how objective and real he found the Catholic religion to be, he often refers to the Real Presence.

Excuses, Excuses

Why are Anglicans more tired on Sunday mornings nowadays than they were 30 years ago?

Bishop Fred?

If Episcopalians want to call their bishop by his (or her) first name, that's their business.

Sweet Lullaby?

Anglo-Catholicism was a victim of its own success

The Lady & the Fox

"Remember that Episcopal lady priest you met at the ecumenical conference?"

When Invoking "the Holy Spirit" Will Justify Just About Anything

William J. Tighe

The wealthy Anglican Churches promote a radical transformation of Christianity to make it over in a way agreeable to elite society.

From Evangelical Anglican to Catholic

William J. Tighe

Since all that was valid about the “Reformation protest” has been accepted by the Church, it is time for Protestants to “come home.”

God’s Good Servant, but the King’s First?

William J. Tighe

Thomas Cranmer was one of the overseers of what Diarmaid MacCulloch calls “a religious revolution of ruthless thoroughness.”

The Invention of Anglicanism

William J. Tighe

Review of Catholic and Reformed: The Roman and Protestant Churches in English Protestant Thought, 1600-1640

Where Catholics Fear Converts

EVANGELIZATION? NOT IN BRITAIN

Alberto Carosa

Hopes for the full evangelization of Anglicans were dashed by a statement issued by, of all people, the Catholic bishops of England.

The Museum Piece Called "Anglo-Papalism”

William J. Tighe

Review of A Tactful God. Gregory Dix: Priest, Monk and Scholar

Is the Washington Cathedral Really "Our Nation's Cathedral"?

GUEST COLUMN

Lawrence Petrus

Anglican "Fundamentalist"?

James G. Hanink

Among “the enlightened” Dr. Johnson was seen as rather a fundamentalist (ever confused with orthodox) and showing a bit of “enthusiasm,” that is, fanaticism.

Sheldon Vanauken, R.I.P.

EDITORIAL

Dale Vree

St. Vincent Pallotti & the Oxford Movement

EDITORIAL

Barry Bossa

The Phenomenon of Robert Hugh Benson

ESCHEWING TRENDY SPECULATION

Janet Grayson

While he lived, from first novel to last, he enjoyed an immense audience, an international audience drawn from all classes, including the royal family.

Newman’s Advice to Anglo-Catholics

Dale Vree

A review of Anglican Difficulties

The Crisis of Anglo-Catholicism in England

TO FIND & RESCUE THE ONE LOST SHEEP

William K. Klimon

Anglicans Affirming Catholicism?

David Hartman

Review of Living Tradition

How Not to Be Ecumenical

Brian Barbour

Within Anglicanism there grew up the notion that disparate elements of Christianity, no matter how con­tradictory, could be brought to­gether.

The New Archbishop of Canterbury

Letter from England

John Warwick Montgomery

A Baptist Among the Episcopalians

HUNGRY FOR LITURGY

Michelle Bobier

Dissecting Newman

J.M. Cameron

Review of The Achievement of John Henry Newman

Discovering Catholicism

GUEST COLUMN

James Prothero

Being an Anglican was like living with a woman out of wedlock: It had the advantages of marriage with none of the commitment and discipline.

On Ecumenism & the Amazing Unity of Catholics

GUEST COLUMN

Paul van K. Thomson

The Church uses theological disputes to teach her doctrine, as controversy raises fundamental issues.

In the Footsteps of John Henry Newman

Dale Vree

Authentic authority, universality, and a firm theological grounding for social action -- these are the overarching factors that lead to Rome.

A Bold Venture in Liturgy

GUEST COLUMN

Mary Alma Parker

Now in our time an edition of the BCP has appeared under the auspices of the Roman Catho­lic Church, which does what none of its predeces­sors did or could do.

The Shaping of Anglican Spiritual Expression

Isabel Anders

Moor­man covers development of the Book of Common Prayer, the place of the English Bible in the Church, hymnody and its influence on worship, and more.

Dorothy L. Sayers’s The Whimsical Christian

CHRISTIAN CLASSICS REVISITED

James J. Thompson Jr.

From first to last, The Whimsical Chris­tian provides the unadulterated pleasure of watch­ing the workings of a powerful Christian mind.

Detection & Orthodoxy

ON DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Rosamond Kent Sprague

The work of Dorothy Sayers is very much all of a piece; she was a thinking and believ­ing Anglican throughout her literary career.