Ecclesiastical bibs and bobs

• Photo: Midnight Mass at Most Holy Trinity, Rome.
• Congratulations to Brother Stephen on his profession.
• A Protestant and ‘reformed’ confession or why as Geoffrey Kirk recently wrote: One could not escape the fact that the Church of England was not what one asserted her to be. All the Bodley reredoses in the world could not take away the bitter fact that we had our monstrances and they poured the leftovers back into the bottle. I suppose we were interlopers but what these Protestant apologists don’t realise is in their ecclesiology, apostasy is only a vote away. The other big-R Reformed among the English turned into Unitarians. From Christian Campbell.
• Beware the superpriest. The plodders are often better.
• Patriarch Cyril greets Pope Benedict on Western Christmas.
• RIP Fr Alexander Filippov. Another Moscow priest murdered.

Labels: Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Russia, the Catholic faith