Author Archives: Fr Anthony Chadwick

J’accuse

Posted on Wednesday, 25 September, 2019 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

“J’Accuse…!” was an open letter published on 13th January 1898 in the newspaper L’Aurore by the writer Émile Zola. His issue was what came to be known in France as L’Affaire Dreyfus. Dreyfus was a Jewish artillery captain in the … Continue reading →

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Science and Faith, a Warning

Posted on Saturday, 21 September, 2019 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have been haunted all day by the article Darwinism Is Dead, Now What? Towards A Rational Spirituality. We seem to have a compare-and-contrast exercise between materialistic atheism – Dawkins style – and the kinds of Christianity we sometimes encounter … Continue reading →

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“The old Anglican, patristic, literary, Oxford tone transplanted into the Church”

Posted on Wednesday, 18 September, 2019 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

My attention was drawn to Fr Hunwicke’s article The Anglican Patrimony. I find most of what this priest writes as irrelevant to my life as mine would be to him, but there is something here that provokes me to comment. … Continue reading →

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“Catholicism made me Protestant”

Posted on Thursday, 12 September, 2019 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I would like to draw your attention to an article that has appeared in First Things. I had better not reproduce it for copyright reasons, but there is no paywall. Catholicism made me Protestant. Read it there. I should attempt … Continue reading →

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Hiraeth

Posted on Thursday, 12 September, 2019 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I don’t speak Welsh, but I came across the word Hiraeth as I was doing my daily scan of Facebook. The posting gave a definition of this word: Homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, a home which … Continue reading →

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Combat de la Mort et de la Vie

Posted on Friday, 23 August, 2019 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I went today to an organ recital at St Ouen in Rouen, where there is just about the finest Cavaillé-Coll organ ever built. The recital was played by Thomas Lacôte, titular organist of the Holy Trinity church in Paris where … Continue reading →

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Dystopia

Posted on Tuesday, 13 August, 2019 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have to admit that I often write from a worried point of view – about our future in the post-everything western world. I was particularly marked by studying Orwell’s 1984 for English literature at school – like most kids … Continue reading →

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Muscular Christianity

Posted on Saturday, 3 August, 2019 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is one of my favourite Don Camillo films. In this except, Peppone goes to confession, for the first time since 1918. He has little to confess, and Don Camillo gives him Absolution. Afterwards, he says to himself “I’m going … Continue reading →

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A l’identique…

Posted on Friday, 2 August, 2019 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have just found this excellent news for those of us who feared that the roof of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris was to be rebuilt in a modern style. It’s official: the new Notre Dame will look like the … Continue reading →

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The Science Delusion

Posted on Friday, 2 August, 2019 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have always been fascinated by the sciences, coming as I do from a scientific and rational family background. My scientific education at school was entirely based on Newton’s laws and the mechanistic notion of the universe and life as … Continue reading →

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