Monthly Archives: September 2012

A few more thoughts about vocation

Posted on Friday, 14 September, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Whole libraries of books have been written about vocations, mostly since the time of the Council of Trent, when the Church wanted honest and dedicated priests instead of lazy and gluttonous parasites. The notion comes from the way biblical characters … Continue reading →

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An article about blogging

Posted on Tuesday, 11 September, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I found this on Fr Smuts’ blog – Does Blogging Help or Hinder Online Debate? Time was when the scholar, the preacher and the politician sat down and wrote a book, or at least a pamphlet or article, and sent it … Continue reading →

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Trolling Psychology

Posted on Saturday, 8 September, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have been doing a little bit of reading on “troll” psychology, and in the end, I wonder about the validity of any of these studies. Why does anyone write on the Internet? I used to see the Internet as … Continue reading →

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An Adjusted View of Modernism

Posted on Friday, 7 September, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is truly a vast subject to which my attention had been drawn by traditionalist and conservative polemics. All, the same, it deserves attention on one of these one-day wonder blog postings. I took the trouble to read J. Lewis … Continue reading →

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Von Hügel and Tyrrell

Posted on Friday, 7 September, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I would like to offer you this text by Canon A. L. Lilley which is a part of the Preface to M. D. Petre, Von Hügel and Tyrrell, the story of a friendship, London 1937. Some might wonder what this … Continue reading →

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A timely sermon

Posted on Friday, 7 September, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I received this only this morning, and find it so appropriate for the grave things we have had to consider. I acknowledge the authorship and ownership of this text. It certainly rings true to someone who has been more badly … Continue reading →

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Blogging – Why do it?

Posted on Friday, 7 September, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

As someone who is untrained in journalism, I took up blogging in about 2004 with a now forgotten section of my Civitas Dei website called Ramblings of an Unchurched Cleric. It was written on pages at the rate of one … Continue reading →

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The Radioactive Waste of the Internet

Posted on Thursday, 6 September, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Comments are the radioactive waste of the Web This article is obviously about blogs written by professional journalists and often under the names of the mainstream newspapers they work for. Before reading the article, bear in mind the quotes I … Continue reading →

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Jules Verne and the Sea

Posted on Wednesday, 5 September, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have this quote from Jules Verne in one of my favourite dreams of all time – Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea – my own translation: You love the sea, Captain [Nemo]. Yes, I love it! I love it! … Continue reading →

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Mourad on Irregular Clergy and the Last Traces of Donatism

Posted on Wednesday, 5 September, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It is always a mistake to close comments – for the sake of real pearls of wisdom a few people are able to write. In the ordinariate movement, most of the lay people involved have shown little concern for the … Continue reading →

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