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OMEN, Of course, enjoy a full spectrum of freedom in conservative, traditional religion provided they wear a hijab or an acceptable substitute. (Such conversations remind me, fondly, of Fr Joseph’s reference to converts in the Orthodox Taliban and jokes about the Ortho-Burqa.)

CCORDING TO Bishop Alan, it seems to run across the Tiber. Check out his One (Traditionalist) Road to Ruin. I noted in my comment my experience in Orthodoxy as a convert. Of course, we here in the former colonies also have our “Neo-Cath” problems. American Evangelicals in the Romam denomination wax fundamentalist [...]

I’ve personalised this post. Because too often bloggers (including me) speak in the abstract about things that are very real. I am a gay man. When someone speaks of “homosexuals as a class” they are either speaking of me, personally, or else they are telling lies. For what is true of [...]

AKING up this AM, this thought about the Anglican Creature that’s co-inhabiting North America with all the other Anglican Bodies popped into my head: the Roman news in the preceding post only happened to fit by coincidence, as it were.
Dear Conservative Anglicans,
If you want to schism off and say Anglicans in Canada and the USA [...]

O & READ Some of the reviews of the Orthodox Study Bible. Some have not read the book – but almost all of them are suffering from “Orthodoxer than Thou”. I particularly like the one that seems to remind us that canonically we’re not supposed to use English. Yup.

HE Globe and Mail asks one of the more important questions of the week: Is Russia morphing into another USSR?
“Moscow apparently calculates that its brute seizure of another country’s territory can be disguised as a ‘peacekeeping’ operation to prevent ‘genocide’ and ‘ethnic cleansing’ by the Georgians. A sophisticated press operation to popularize this mendacious [...]

ATHER Peter shares with us the latest Orthodox Jurisdictional Cluster Bang.
As such, our directive of May 2, 2003 remains in force. To emphasize the main point or that directive, the clergy of The Antiochian Archdiocese are still forbidden from communing and/or concelebrating with any clergy who are a part of this newly-formed “Vicariate far [...]

The Archbishop of Genoa and President of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, said this week the impossibility of divorced and remarried Catholics receiving Communion “does not depend on an external disposition but rather comes from the interior of the sacrament of the Eucharist itself, the sacrament of the perennial unity between the love [...]

As in you can’t get back in without going right to the top… Vatican decrees excommunication for participation in ‘ordination’ of women:
The decree from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith also mentions that it applies to all people in communion with the Catholic Church, including any bishops or women who are members [...]

I forget who it is… there’s a monastery out in the Southwest, I think? Well, someplace. They paint icons. They are, I think, not a Roman Catholic monastery, or, maybe, not “officially” so: perhaps Sedevacantist? Or maybe just “Old Catholic” Episcopi Vagante? Don’t know. Anyway, they paint icons – [...]