Monthly Archives: September 2015

Just the sort of thing that makes religion nonsense

Posted on Wednesday, 30 September, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Reams have been written about the notions of truth and ideology, the latter word being extremely ambiguous and difficult to define with any accuracy. Many of us grew up in the latter half of the twentieth century, only a few … Continue reading →

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Secularism and Christianity

Posted on Tuesday, 29 September, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is a fine article – The Offer You Can’t Refuse (the Secular World) One thing that comes out of this is that for as long as churches try to ape the secular world (bureaucracy, steering committees, etc.) we know … Continue reading →

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Christian Romanticism

Posted on Wednesday, 23 September, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

We don’t seem to see an end to the depressing binary dialectic between “cultural Christianity” and conservative Catholicism, Protestantism and Orthodoxy, especially in the American scene. This side of the Atlantic, outside imported American religion, Christianity is decaying like its … Continue reading →

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Daemonium Meridianum

Posted on Tuesday, 22 September, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Most of us are familiar with Psalm 90 (91) which is said every evening at Compline, that wonderful intimate Office that monks sing by heart in the darkness. As Christ was comforted and protected in the desert, despite the Devil … Continue reading →

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Charlie Hebdo back in the News

Posted on Tuesday, 15 September, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I’m going to have to be careful on this subject. So far, I have tried to stay away from the subject of the Middle East, the involvement of the west, the situation of thousands of political and economic refugees desperately … Continue reading →

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Sarum Reconstructionism

Posted on Monday, 14 September, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is interesting – A “Sarum Use” church plant and why it wouldn’t work. In the perspective of “all-or-nothing” in which he presents it, he is probably right. If however the Sarum Use were celebrated in the same spirit as some … Continue reading →

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When the Salt loses its Savour…

Posted on Friday, 11 September, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

These are the words that came into my mind as I read A Brief (Very Brief) History of Practical Liturgics by JV. He published an unfinished, or rather in-concluded, posting. I would probably have felt the same had I written … Continue reading →

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A People without Memory is a People without a Future

Posted on Wednesday, 9 September, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I hated history lessons at school, with a master droning on about events in nineteenth-century English politics that seemed so distant and irrelevant. Why is historical knowledge so vitally important? Simply, historical knowledge is an antidote to ideology and manipulation. … Continue reading →

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Episcopi Vagantes Simplified

Posted on Tuesday, 8 September, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

In A conservative blog for peace, we find On pushing progressivism in church and more. I think John is a tad simplistic for many questions: Episcopi vagantes summed up: “tossing about between Modernism, theosophy, and simple megalomania.” Ex-clergy or clergy … Continue reading →

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Up and Down the Canal

Posted on Monday, 7 September, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I returned today from my little weekend on the Somme, see previous article. The descriptions are under each photo. I am moored just upstream from where I launched upstream from the main lock at Saint Valéry sur Somme. There was … Continue reading →

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