Monthly Archives: March 2013

Examining Priorities Against a New Standard

Posted on Friday, 15 March, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

As every morning, I opened my e-mail and Internet, just like gentlemen in the old days reading The Daily Telegraph or The Times, or even The Guardian over their breakfast coffee and toast. I pay my fixed fee each month … Continue reading →

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Pope Francis and the Liturgy

Posted on Thursday, 14 March, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I found a word from the Chairman of the Latin Mass Society in England who has this to say: There’s little indication that he has a great interest in the liturgy. Surprising as that might seem, I’m quite happy with … Continue reading →

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Oh dear!

Posted on Thursday, 14 March, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Pope Francis branded Britain ‘usurpers’ over Falklands conflict I was 23 at the time and saw an English warship with a massive hole in the side from one of Leopoldo Galtieri’s Exocet missiles as I sailed into Portsmouth from France … Continue reading →

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New Counter Reformation

Posted on Thursday, 14 March, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

That has been a theme of the Abbé de Nantes and Catholic Counter Reformation in the 21st century for years and decades. Look at the sixteenth century. There were not only popes putting people in dungeons and torture chambers. There … Continue reading →

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The Two Standards of Saint Ignatius of Loyola

Posted on Thursday, 14 March, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Ignatian spirituality can seem rather dry and “methodical” for those of us more attracted by the more Patristic and medieval ways. However, I invite you to penetrate through this rather odd kind of rhetoric and seize the essential of our … Continue reading →

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A Conservative Evangelical Pope

Posted on Thursday, 14 March, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Francis I a friend to Argentine Anglicans In a note released after the election of the new Pope, Francis I, on March 13 Bishop Venables wrote: “Many are asking me what Jorge Bergoglio is really like. He is much more … Continue reading →

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Morning After Round-up

Posted on Thursday, 14 March, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I’m still reeling even though I went nowhere when most of the TAC either crumbled or went by bits and pieces into the Ordinariates. What transpired is that anyone who has an interest in liturgy, Anglican or pre-Pauline Roman, is … Continue reading →

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Prayer Intention

Posted on Wednesday, 13 March, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Fr James Schovanek SSC sent out an e-mail to ask our prayers in his distress. I quote: Of your charity please pray for the repose of the troubled soul of our grandson, Evan Graf, who took his own life yesterday.  … Continue reading →

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More Traditionalist Reactions

Posted on Wednesday, 13 March, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I’m English living in rural France, not Argentinian, but there are traditionalists who have experience of Cardinal Bergoglio as their Ordinary. The Horror! A Buenos Aires journalist describes Bergoglio It’s pretty hard. Comments would be welcome from anyone who has … Continue reading →

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Trajectory of History

Posted on Wednesday, 13 March, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Pope Francis is already being described as an “anti-Ratzinger”, which is probably based on a serious misunderstanding of Pope Emeritus Benedict. We do obviously have to come to terms with the possibility that the Church is no longer the question … Continue reading →

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