Monthly Archives: September 2018

The Clint Eastwood Hour

Posted on Tuesday, 25 September, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I am in the process of looking for a redundant organ for a church in France that has asked me for one and has called on my services as a skilled non-professional organ builder. I found a number of available … Continue reading →

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Cosmopolitanism Revisited

Posted on Saturday, 22 September, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This word, like many others ending with “ism”, describes an ideology according to which we all belong to a single “world city”, κοσμοπολίτης in Greek. This idea would transcend the differences that exist between cultures and languages through some form … Continue reading →

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A Cri de Coeur from an English Expatriate in Europe

Posted on Friday, 21 September, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I wrote this short text for a Facegroup group of more than nine thousand English expatriates in France, many of whom are uncertain of their future in the event of a “hard” or “blind” Brexit. There are hundreds of thousands … Continue reading →

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The Virtue of Hope

Posted on Thursday, 20 September, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have followed my Bishop’s tenth anniversary of Episcopal Consecration from afar. I would like to join my voice (or writing fingers) to Fr Jonathan Munn’s article Ad multos annos! As I have mentioned elsewhere, I came to the conclusion in … Continue reading →

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The mask comes away…

Posted on Tuesday, 18 September, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have come across a review of a book on the history of Vatican I (1870) in Vatican I, Pius IX, and the problem of ultramontanism. The article is published in a Roman Catholic site, and criticism from such a … Continue reading →

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Tight or Loose?

Posted on Monday, 17 September, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have reading a number of articles by sociologists and others who have an interesting theory about “tight” against “loose” cultures. The tightest would be strict Muslim countries or the remaining Communist and totalitarian countries. The loosest would be New … Continue reading →

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Piss-ups in Breweries

Posted on Friday, 14 September, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

In two hundred days, the 29th March 2019, the UK will leave the European Union and go to the “good old days”. I won’t go into the details of everything I have been reading in the news. You can read … Continue reading →

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Be careful about what you ask for!

Posted on Thursday, 13 September, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

The Pope’s Earthly empire is laid to rest – Italian anti-clerical drawing from 1870 It was in 2014 that I wrote in Aristocracy of the Spirit: I had a long conversation with two friends in London a few days ago about … Continue reading →

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Blue Flower Feedback

Posted on Tuesday, 11 September, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Since publishing The Blue Flower in late June this year, my website statistics inform me that the file has been downloaded 317 times. It might have been read by that number of readers with varying degrees of interest. Feedback is … Continue reading →

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Solitude and Loneliness

Posted on Sunday, 9 September, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

When I was in my school choir, we sang the famous Mendelssohn anthem Hear my Prayer, the text of which is derived from Psalm 55. Hör’ mein Bitten, Herr, neige dich zu mir, auf deines Kindes Stimme habe Acht! Ich … Continue reading →

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