Monthly Archives: February 2017

Another Experience of Life

Posted on Saturday, 25 February, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of the others. Christopher Columbus I have just been re-reading my posting Aristocracy of … Continue reading →

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Priests on the Spectrum?

Posted on Saturday, 25 February, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Fr Ray Blake has written an article about the question of compatibility between high-functioning autism (or Aspergers) and the religious and priestly vocations. Wounded Healers I find the article sensitively written, though I doubt there are that many priests on … Continue reading →

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Early Modern English

Posted on Thursday, 23 February, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Archbishop Haverland has been on Facebook, exhorting us priests to get it right with memorized texts like the doxology after a collect: All traditional clergy should commit to memory the basic rule for expanding a collect ending to full Trinitarian … Continue reading →

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Glitter Ashes

Posted on Monday, 20 February, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I thought I had heard them all! This is going “viral” on Facebook. A number of people responded to the provocation to express indignation or wonder whether it is a joke. Even some gay people object to this aberration and … Continue reading →

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Aspie Days in Lille

Posted on Saturday, 18 February, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I went to the second day of Aspie Days in Lille (near the Belgian border). It was quite fascinating and I might venture to say, illuminating. It was the first time I had met people diagnosed with Aspergers and other … Continue reading →

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A Certain Sense of Style

Posted on Friday, 17 February, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

As Clint Eastwood would say, “You guys sure have a certain sense of style”. Here’s an amazing video from Palmar de Troya. Photography in their church used to be strictly forbidden. I am surprised that the ceremonies seem to be … Continue reading →

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Temple Grandin

Posted on Monday, 13 February, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have just made the discovery of an amazing American woman by the name of Temple Grandin. I have just ordered the DVD by her name, a film about her life as an autistic. You can find clips from this … Continue reading →

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Quid est Veritas?

Posted on Friday, 10 February, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Like in the political world, black seems to be white in the RC Church. I have received several links to news articles about the ongoing war between conservatives (including Cardinal Burke) and Pope Francis. How Pope Francis can cleanse the … Continue reading →

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Aspie Archbishop?

Posted on Friday, 3 February, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is quite amazing – Michael Ramsey – an autistic archbishop ? Diagnosing a dead person is not easy to say the least (it has been tried with King George III and Mozart among others), but people did notice some strange … Continue reading →

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The French RC Continuum

Posted on Wednesday, 1 February, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I am probably the only Continuing Anglican priest with experience of French Catholicism, both in the Parisian mainstream and the traditionalist scene. I see many parallels between French Catholicism and Russian Orthodoxy: the identification of the Kingdom of God and … Continue reading →

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