Tag: England

First, Do No Harm? – The Catholic Thing

A little over a year ago, I took my aged father for a specialist visit. The appointment, which I still recall with painful clarity, put me in mind of the Anglo-Saxon poem known simply as “The Ruin.” The manuscript is damaged, so what remains is…

Is the Church of England in a Death Spiral?

The Anglo-American poet, T.S. Eliot (born in St. Louis), wrote “The Hollow Men” in 1925. The poem concludes with this haunting quatrain: This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang…

Is the Church of England in a Death Spiral?

The Anglo-American poet, T.S. Eliot (born in St. Louis), wrote “The Hollow Men” in 1925. The poem concludes with this haunting quatrain: This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang…

The Church of England is confused

The Church of England is confused. In truth, it has been ever since the Act of Supremacy and King Henry VIII’s removal of the prayers for the Pope from the Mass.  Always a rather ephemeral thing, it has wrestled back and forth in a perpetual…