Monthly Archives: March 2016

Ponerology

Posted on Wednesday, 16 March, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is a term with which I have been familiar for a few years. The term is based on the Greek word πονηρός, an adjective which is also used substantively, meaning pain-ridden, and by extension evil. Those who use the … Continue reading →

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Sail on the Seine

Posted on Tuesday, 15 March, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This was my first time out this year, and I have wanted for some time to try the tidal part of the Seine. I launched from the slipway next to the sailing club of Hénouville. The tide was going out, … Continue reading →

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Let us glaze our arses…

Posted on Saturday, 12 March, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Sometimes, our brains race ahead of our ability to communicate with human language, and words get switched around in a sentence. It is something akin to the order of letters in words being inverted, yet they are legible if the … Continue reading →

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Hanged by the neck until dead

Posted on Friday, 11 March, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

There is a discussion on capital punishment on The hanging judge… and Death, part two… I think I have discussed this moral problem to an extent on this blog. Just type keywords into the search box, or look at the … Continue reading →

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Et in Arcadia Ego II

Posted on Friday, 11 March, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It just goes to show… I tend to regurgitate old stuff and add subtle things to old posts. See Et in Arcadia Ego. At my age, I tend to go on with the same fundamental thoughts. I arrived at Fr Montgomery’s … Continue reading →

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With the passing years…

Posted on Tuesday, 8 March, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have been delighted to find this video on Fr Quintin Montgomery Wright, which dates from 1988. Two indicators, his age of 74 and the controversy in that year over the four episcopal consecrations conferred by Archbishop Lefebvre. No one … Continue reading →

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The Conservative Rhetoric

Posted on Sunday, 6 March, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Perhaps if I didn’t read it, I wouldn’t get steamed up about it… Perhaps this applies as much to me as to the conservatives who are hammering on about abortion, euthanasia, same-sex “marriage”, transsexualism, etc. Going round some of the … Continue reading →

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Apparitions

Posted on Saturday, 5 March, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Rad Trad has just put up a posting on apparitions – Josephology Appendix 1: Apparitions & Visitations. It is often a tiresome subject when people for whom faith, belief and religion are an external mask that affirms their personal agendas. … Continue reading →

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Fashion

Posted on Friday, 4 March, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

My attention has sometimes been attracted to a phenomenon called Steampunk, and I got something of an exposure to it when I visited Jules Verne’s house in Amiens. Fascination for things from the nineteenth century is a two-edged sword. One … Continue reading →

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Flattering…

Posted on Thursday, 3 March, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

In my statistics page, I have found sailing forums in Italy and Australia referring to my page on the Huntingford Helm Impeder. It is a simple home-made device for holding the helm of a boat when the skipper needs both … Continue reading →

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