Traditional Catholicism in England: The Witness of Father John Hunwicke

Father John Hunwicke (pronounced ‘Hunnick’) was once an Anglican priest, but a Catholic at heart “always.” He took advantage of the opportunity Benedict XVI had offered to return fully to Catholic unity by joining the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. As a committed Catholic, Father Hunwicke, who is intimately acquainted with the collapse of the Anglican Church, unfortunately perceives the same seeds of destruction at work today within Catholicism. He moderates the blog “Fr Hunwicke’s Mutual Enrichment—Liturgical Notes,” and has become one of the great witnesses, in English-speaking Catholic circles, of the perils that must urgently be forestalled.
Paix Liturgique – Father, tell us about your conversion.
Fr Hunwicke – For a long time now there has existed within Anglicanism a “Catholic” tradition. As I’ve belonged to this current since my youth, I naturally subscribed to the entirety of the beliefs of the Catholic faith, including the dogma of papal infallibility as …More