Monthly Archives: August 2014

Sincerely Searching Priest

Posted on Tuesday, 26 August, 2014 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This would have escaped me if I hadn’t been looking at my statistics page and the sites that link here. There is a very “extreme left” forum based in Australia by the name of Catholica, which seems for the most … Continue reading →

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The Thick Façade of Civilization

Posted on Wednesday, 20 August, 2014 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have just discovered this wonderful article: The Thick Façade of Civilization It comes as no surprise to find out that the author is a man of the sea and sails a yacht. Bernard Moitessier anchored his boat in French … Continue reading →

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Emerging Totalitarianism?

Posted on Wednesday, 20 August, 2014 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This seems to be a balanced article – Orwell, Huxley and the Emerging Totalitarianism. It is a subject that preoccupies me. I have read both 1984 and Brave New World, and have read William Shirer’s monumental The Rise and Fall … Continue reading →

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The Blood of the Martyrs

Posted on Tuesday, 19 August, 2014 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Here is a passionate article from a Continuing Anglican source: Aussie Military Strategist: We’ll Fight Radical Islam for 100 Years. The Australian news article itself is behind a paywall, but Capellane gives the gist of it. Indeed our natural passions would … Continue reading →

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Bits & Bobs

Posted on Monday, 18 August, 2014 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have just learned of the death of Fr Jean-Marie Charles-Roux, the mysterious Rosminian priest who said the old Mass at St Etheldreda’s, Ely Place. He has just died in Rome at the age of 99 years. I went to … Continue reading →

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The Sea off Brittany

Posted on Monday, 18 August, 2014 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Nothing is more Breton than seafaring, whether it is “messing about in boats” or risking your life in a storm to earn your living as a fisherman. This is the sea at its most placid and pleasurable for a dinghy … Continue reading →

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The Churches the Baroque Forgot

Posted on Monday, 18 August, 2014 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I am just back from Brittany and a fine two-week holiday of sailing and visiting. One thing we found surprising here in west Brittany is the good condition of the many fine medieval churches and a relative absence of baroque … Continue reading →

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Don’t Proselytize

Posted on Saturday, 2 August, 2014 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I follow on from yesterday’s article with some stuff that is being sent out by e-mail. In particular, there is a link to a posting by the Young Fogey, our odd friend by the name of John Beeler – who … Continue reading →

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The Three K’s

Posted on Friday, 1 August, 2014 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Fr Jonathan Munn of our Diocese has just written Katholicism, Kripkean Dogmatism and ExKommunication. It is almost a case of telepathy as I was so tempted to react to a recent sanctimonious posting by Fr Zuhlsdorf on excommunication and hell. … Continue reading →

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