Author Archives: Fr Anthony Chadwick

Christian Humanism

Posted on Saturday, 9 February, 2019 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

In this posting, I will take apart the term I used in Humanist Europe, that term being humanism. Why does this notion interest me apart from the fact of being myself a human being? My overriding thought in the present … Continue reading →

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Dreadful!

Posted on Thursday, 7 February, 2019 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I find it very odd to be reading about hell in the news, in a story surrounding Donald Tusk of the EU saying: “I’ve been wondering what a special place in hell looks like for people who promoted Brexit without … Continue reading →

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Humanist Europe

Posted on Saturday, 2 February, 2019 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have tried several times on this blog to express political views, and – as would be expected – they were not always well received. I came from a Tory-voting family, but one with moderate and tolerant views. You don’t … Continue reading →

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Cosmopolitanism Revisited

Posted on Wednesday, 23 January, 2019 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I often meet people whose experience is restricted to their immediate community, their homes, families, places of work, everything that is familiar. They might go on a package tour or a cruise to an exotic place, but strictly as a … Continue reading →

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Transcendence, Truth and Reality: A Mathematician’s Fumble

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

This article was intended for the Christmas issue of the Blue Flower which never appeared. Fr Munn has been invited to be an Author on this blog which will take the place of the review. I’m not a mathematician myself, … Continue reading →

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Christian Romanticism for the 2020’s

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

I have several times mentioned an important distinction between the Romantic movement per se which extended from the mid eighteenth century to about the same point in the nineteenth. Its causes are found in the Enlightenment and man’s quest for … Continue reading →

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A New Purpose

Posted on Monday, 21 January, 2019 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Over the past few weeks, I have been thinking about this blog, and wondered (I was not alone) whether I was just going through a bout of winter blues and writer’s block. Should I begin a new blog, concentrate on … Continue reading →

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Stoicism, Competitiveness, Dominance and Aggression

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

I have just been reading Red Dreher’s Manhood As Mental Disorder. When I started reading it, my first thought was “more of the same” from the growing swing back to Hitler’s Ubermensch and the New Soviet Man away from the … Continue reading →

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For, lo, the winter is past

Posted on Tuesday, 8 January, 2019 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

But the winter is still with us. It is nearly three weeks since the Solstice, but the weather is mild and damp rather than freezing cold like in some parts of the world. The spring of 2019 will bring us … Continue reading →

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This Blog’s Future

Posted on Sunday, 30 December, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I began this blog six years ago, in January 2012 at a time when The Anglo-Catholic blog had no more use for me and I deleted The English Catholic. I think many of us remember the turmoil and the clash … Continue reading →

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