Author Archives: Fr Anthony Chadwick

A New Blog

Posted on Monday, 12 November, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have recently come across a new blog under the title of St Mary’s Hollywood: The Cold Case File, run by John Bruce, an erstwhile parishioner at St Mary of the Angels Church in Hollywood during the events of 2011 and … Continue reading →

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We Will Remember Them

Posted on Sunday, 11 November, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.

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What Justifies our Existence?

Posted on Friday, 9 November, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

What justifies our existence? By this I don’t mean our individual lives as human persons, but our continuing as priests, little sacramental Christian communities, or whatever. We often find ourselves in impossible situations like a boat in rough sea. There … Continue reading →

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Utterly Beautiful

Posted on Friday, 9 November, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have just come across this site of photographs of small waves breaking on a beach. The photos would have been taken with a very high shutter speed to immobilise the water totally. The results are incredibly beautiful. See them … Continue reading →

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Three Stephens

Posted on Thursday, 8 November, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

We now have a problem of two Stephen K’s! The third Stephen is an “M”, so there is no problem. Our Stephen K in Australia has been contributing highly enlightening comments for some time, and I greatly esteem his input. … Continue reading →

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Christian Anarchism

Posted on Thursday, 8 November, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I am gathering ideas for this subject that has fascinated me for a long time. For the time being, I leave you with a quote from Nicholas Berdyaev (Slavery and Freedom) and some links. The religious truth of anarchism consists … Continue reading →

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The Desire for the Mitre

Posted on Thursday, 8 November, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It is something I have found in the Continuing Anglican movement as in the independent sacramental movement in general. For those in the mainstream churches, it is difficult to know why everyone seems to want to be a bishop! There … Continue reading →

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A Promising Independent Sacramental Apostolate

Posted on Wednesday, 7 November, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I had often wondered what happened to Brother Stephen Treat who was a monk at Spring Bank Cistercian Abbey and wrote a good number of articles on The Anglo-Catholic blog now in a state of extended hiatus. As far as I … Continue reading →

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Evil as the Absence of Empathy

Posted on Wednesday, 7 November, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Last night for just under three hours, I watched the film made in around 2000 about the Nuremberg Trials of the leading war criminals in 1945-46. I found the acting brilliant, especially the psychopathic manipulation and evil “aura” of Herman … Continue reading →

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A Lutheran Pastor on Western Orthodoxy

Posted on Tuesday, 6 November, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

My stats page informed me that my blog had been linked to by a blog run by a Lutheran pastor in the US. The article in question is Must Orthodoxy be Byzantine? He refers to my earlier article – Western … Continue reading →

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