Monthly Archives: October 2015

Multiculturalism and the Immigration Crisis

Posted on Friday, 30 October, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have already had a comment in this blog to the effect that we in England and Europe should arm ourselves and prepare to emigrate by the summer of 2016. My wife this morning showed me a photo on a … Continue reading →

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Sarum Calendar 2016

Posted on Thursday, 29 October, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I would like to remind readers that current Sarum calendars are available on Dr William Renwick’s site. Like the various Roman rite ordos available, they enable us to get everything right for Mass and Office in terms of precedence and … Continue reading →

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Let the Mayhem begin, just as long as it doesn’t affect me!

Posted on Monday, 26 October, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Click on the image for an enlargement and the details of this horror. I often read alternative news sites to try to get a different slant on what’s going on in the world. I naturally look for signs of hope, … Continue reading →

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Updated Statistics

Posted on Thursday, 22 October, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This blog, set up in January 2012, is nearly four years old. My statistics page informs me that it has had 585,742 views and 7,075 comments. It contains a total of 1,072 postings excluding this one. My peak day was … Continue reading →

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Washing a Quilt

Posted on Tuesday, 20 October, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It is quite amazing how things follow on from each other. Our quilt got pissed on by one of our cats, and the time came today to wash it. Too big for a domestic washing machine, so I had to … Continue reading →

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Tattoos

Posted on Sunday, 18 October, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Interesting article: A theory for tattoos I have always cringed when seeing tattooed skin. My father warned us his children particularly against hard drugs and tattoos. I didn’t always heed his advice, but I did in these matters. I have … Continue reading →

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Ordinariate Market Research

Posted on Sunday, 18 October, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

He’s written another one What Is The Market For Anglicanorum coetibus? Before I set up as a translator at the beginning of this century, I did a brief course of business studies: the idea we want to sell, what we … Continue reading →

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More liturgical matters

Posted on Friday, 16 October, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Again, I go into a subject from which there is little to conclude definitively. I do so because there have been a few exchanges between one blog and another. The real issue I read in these various posts is one … Continue reading →

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A tough sell…

Posted on Thursday, 15 October, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is something to think about. Darkness comes over the world like in the Hitler or Stalin regimes or something like Orwell’s dystopia. The Party has the ultimate means of turning believers into atheists and correcting anyone with politically incorrect … Continue reading →

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Gentrified Catholicism

Posted on Tuesday, 13 October, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Last Saturday, I attended a Confirmation ceremony of my wife’s thirteen-year old niece in a school chapel in Vesinet. This is quite a chic area near Versailles and in the Diocese by that name. The nineteenth-century houses are in leafy … Continue reading →

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