Author Archives: Fr Anthony Chadwick

Free Church of England and the Union of Scranton

Posted on Saturday, 16 March, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is interesting – Økumeniske samtaler i Storbritannia. I suspected this for a long time, but it was all kept under wraps. Bishops Flemestad of the Nordic Catholic Church has revealed ecumenical work between the Union of Scranton and the Free … Continue reading →

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“The traditional Latin Mass brigade is finished.”

Posted on Saturday, 16 March, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

First Impressions of Francis This is an interesting point of view. A Vatican diplomat assured me yesterday, “The traditional Latin Mass brigade is finished.” Do I detect a note of triumphalism and schadenfreude? This, if truly said by someone in … Continue reading →

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Official Vatican Response to Accusations against Pope Francis

Posted on Friday, 15 March, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I reproduce this official statement from the Vatican Information Service. As far as I am concerned, Pope Francis is innocent of any collaboration with an evil dictatorship, and I will not comment any further on the issue. * * * … Continue reading →

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Ordinariates under Pope Francis

Posted on Friday, 15 March, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Deborah Gyapong asks the question Could this new Pope pave the way for new Ordinariates? I suppose nothing is impossible, and we will not have long to wait to find out what the major orientations of the new pontificate are going … Continue reading →

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Fools for Christ

Posted on Friday, 15 March, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Is this an image of the Church? This moving image shows a person who appears to be a strict-observance Franciscan praying in St Peter’s Square before the white smoke appeared. The western Church had St Francis of Assisi himself. One … Continue reading →

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Examining Priorities Against a New Standard

Posted on Friday, 15 March, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

As every morning, I opened my e-mail and Internet, just like gentlemen in the old days reading The Daily Telegraph or The Times, or even The Guardian over their breakfast coffee and toast. I pay my fixed fee each month … Continue reading →

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Pope Francis and the Liturgy

Posted on Thursday, 14 March, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I found a word from the Chairman of the Latin Mass Society in England who has this to say: There’s little indication that he has a great interest in the liturgy. Surprising as that might seem, I’m quite happy with … Continue reading →

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Oh dear!

Posted on Thursday, 14 March, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Pope Francis branded Britain ‘usurpers’ over Falklands conflict I was 23 at the time and saw an English warship with a massive hole in the side from one of Leopoldo Galtieri’s Exocet missiles as I sailed into Portsmouth from France … Continue reading →

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New Counter Reformation

Posted on Thursday, 14 March, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

That has been a theme of the Abbé de Nantes and Catholic Counter Reformation in the 21st century for years and decades. Look at the sixteenth century. There were not only popes putting people in dungeons and torture chambers. There … Continue reading →

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The Two Standards of Saint Ignatius of Loyola

Posted on Thursday, 14 March, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Ignatian spirituality can seem rather dry and “methodical” for those of us more attracted by the more Patristic and medieval ways. However, I invite you to penetrate through this rather odd kind of rhetoric and seize the essential of our … Continue reading →

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