Monthly Archives: October 2019

Enigma Variations

Posted on Tuesday, 29 October, 2019 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

No, this is not the beautiful music of Elgar, but another set of variations on the mystery of why so many men want to assume the role of the Pope, or find a solution to the contradiction between their belief … Continue reading →

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Ecclesial Cosmopolitanism

Posted on Monday, 28 October, 2019 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

The older I grow, the more I see a convergence of issues and thoughts. I began to read an article by Pauline Kleingeld, who wrote another work on Novalis and his puzzling fragment Die Christenheit oder Europa. This article is … Continue reading →

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The Name of the Rose

Posted on Friday, 25 October, 2019 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I open this brief posting with the title of Umberto Eco’s famous novel about an extremely corrupt abbey in the early fourteenth century where monks were ready to kill to preserve the secret of the legitimacy of humour according to … Continue reading →

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La Nausée

Posted on Friday, 25 October, 2019 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Yes, from the very author who wrote “Hell is other people” – L’enfer c’est les autres in his play Huis clos. Jean-Paul Sartre was unfamiliar with the various grotesque parodies of churches and bishops one occasionally sees on the Internet. … Continue reading →

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Why We Fight…

Posted on Tuesday, 22 October, 2019 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Anyone who reads the news will have some idea of the gravity of the situation in England. Unfortunately, journalists nearly always have a partial and narrow understanding of the situation. Of course, I speak of the British Government and the … Continue reading →

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Romanticising Aspergers

Posted on Thursday, 10 October, 2019 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

That title might strike the reader as insane or as odd as the stereotype English eccentric. It is a while since I have written anything about Aspergers or what modern specialists call high-functioning autism. The condition has been studied for … Continue reading →

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