Monthly Archives: March 2013

Pius IX Cover-up?

Posted on Thursday, 7 March, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have just been on the phone with someone who told me about Hubert Wolf’s Die Nonnen von Sant’Ambrogio: Eine wahre Geschichte. Apparently, this is about an extremely perverted Jesuit priest in nineteenth-century Rome who had the most influence on … Continue reading →

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French Letter Purveyors Fiddle while Rome Burns

Posted on Thursday, 7 March, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Papal contender: condom use a ‘duty’ in some circumstances – one would expect nothing less from The Tablet. Two observations: Benedict XVI already broke the taboo by saying that condoms were justifiable to prevent the spread of AIDS. All moral … Continue reading →

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Reefing a Mirror Dinghy Sail

Posted on Thursday, 7 March, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I found a search term – reefing mirror dinghy. Shortening sail is the term for when there is too much wind. On a ship with many sails, this is done by reducing the number of sails offered to the wind. … Continue reading →

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No Way Out

Posted on Thursday, 7 March, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

My wife just sent me this, asking me what I can do without infringing the Highway Code: It almost seems to be an image of the Church these days! Highway codes seem to be about the same in most countries. … Continue reading →

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Ecclesial Prophecies

Posted on Wednesday, 6 March, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Much has been made of sayings and writings by Benedict XVI and men like Cardinal Christoph von Schönborn, Archbishop of Vienna in Austria. I had the latter as one of my professors at Fribourg. He normally taught dogmatic theology in … Continue reading →

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Towards the Unknown

Posted on Tuesday, 5 March, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Not being a Vatican watcher, I was more attentive to the first signs of spring here in France and took the boat out to sea for the first time this year. It was uneventful. As always at the beginning of … Continue reading →

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Boom Vang

Posted on Saturday, 2 March, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Another sailing search term came in – mirror dinghy boom vang options I usually term the boom vang as the downhaul as opposed to the two other devices for trimming the shape of the mainsail, the outhaul and the cunningham. … Continue reading →

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Not the SSPX but non-European

Posted on Saturday, 2 March, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I’m beginning to like this new blog I have discovered, at least for the time being and without having corresponded with this fellow. He wrote About that deadline… yesterday. Having known the Society of St Pius X in France and … Continue reading →

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Interesting Blog

Posted on Friday, 1 March, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Someone with the initials JV recently commented on one of my posts and said: You certainly have a keen sense of what is at issue, for the the future of the Roman Church. Sadly, most RCs are blinded to such … Continue reading →

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Sede Vacante 2013

Posted on Friday, 1 March, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

A few days ago, I reminisced about the vacancy of the papal see in Sede Vacante 2005. How does it seem this time? After the death of John Paul II, when I was already far from being in that Church as … Continue reading →

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