Doug Chaplin

I’m a priest and trainer. I'm into photography, culture, liturgy and faith (ancient and modern) Not entirely restraining my inner geek.

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@MadsDavies Thanks

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@jk_rowling @bindelj I'm not sure if that hint of kleptomania by people called Petunia is unfair to Mrs Dursley!

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Apart from the general ridiculousness of this, I can't help but wonder: are those on the left or those on the right facing ad orientem?

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From 4:00 a.m. onwards, each priest can celebrate his own Mass in one of the three tents set up with several altars. This was one of them.

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@WalkerMarcus There are few people more intolerant of others than a campaigning secularist.

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I made a @CofEWorcester video with the help of one of our church schools. Trying to talk about the Trinity with children without falling into gross heresy is always a challenge (which I hope I've avoided)
https://t.co/9Tiv0zMD1W

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@SSBullivant @MadsDavies I've always had a soft spot for "When a knight won his spurs". About 15 years ago I was also forcefully reminded how much this can matter when taking a funeral for an 18 yr old, and a church full of teenagers joined in Lord of the Dance pretty much by heart.

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@Robin_C_Douglas @BlueCheese608 I'd say its a bit more complex: in UK English "scheme" is neutral as a noun, negative as a verb; "fix" is neutral as a verb, and negative as a noun. Or is that just me?

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@philritchie @FraserNelson His last few posts on Substack have been really good quality (though that might just be code for “I agree with him”!

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I so agree with this Substack from @FraserNelson pointing out the hypocrisy of a politician blaming judges for applying the laws the politicians make.

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@petercarrell @Liturgy In RC calendar, Augustine is 27 May!

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@Elizaphanian Judging by the history of the church, "Love one another"

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Things to make the internet explode: Pope quotes Tolkien!

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In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV quotes J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.”

“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.”

(Photo: Vatican Media)

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@gerrylynch @ChurchTimes You do need to (re-)watch the Yes, Prime Minister episode The Bishop's Gambit on this theme!

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@gerrylynch @DrIanTerry @seatrout @LindaWoodhead Thanks - you're probably more international in your focus than my more specifically English thinking, but I shall very much hope for a published version of this!

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@gerrylynch @seatrout @LindaWoodhead What exactly is your thesis topic? It sounds as though it may overlap with some things I've been pondering recently, and therefore I'm really quite curious.

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@Elizaphanian @2D0XPS Not that I recall.

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Fascinated to find this statement being made in 1945 "many ordination candidates know their Bibles less well than most educated children fifty years ago". Plus ça change!

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@LucySixsmith @jonkuhrt I don't think you should blame yourself for her misunderstanding. I haven't read your book (yet) but I thought your article was quite clear, and was bemused by this letter.

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@2D0XPS @Elizaphanian It's the 1945 report "Towards the Conversion of England"