Author Archives: Fr Anthony Chadwick

Encouraging Liturgical Developments

There are three encouraging things to relate: A Brief Video of Mass in the Rite of Lyon Ambrosian Mass for the Second Sunday of Lent Several sources including this one are affirming that Rome has given a “provisional” indult to … Continue reading

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Hannibal Dawkins?

Dawkins Wants to Eat Human ‘Meat’. We shouldn’t get carried away by our cinema-aided imagination and see him as a latter-day Hannibal Lecter or Albert Fish who ate children in the 1930’s and was dealt with by the law. At … Continue reading

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Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose…

The more it changes, the more it’s the same thing. My attention has just been drawn to We Have Never Been Medieval. As I read though this piece, I find myself ever more confirmed in my adhesion to philosophical Idealism, even … Continue reading

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Collectivism and Unity

This is a subject I have been picking at for a while, and probably in various ways since my childhood. It is the political mantra proclaiming that mankind must be together and marching in lockstep in order to survive. Ideally, … Continue reading

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Logos Option

My e-mail address is on the list of Dr Robert Moynihan, and sometimes there are some lovely spiritual reflections. Most recently, he has sent out a letter with the title The Logos Option. It might seem somewhat corny after Benedict … Continue reading

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No more Ads

I have been meaning to do this for a long time, upgrading to a paid plan with WordPress, $48 per year. No more ads, which looked absolutely terrible on my mobile phone! There are one or two bits and pieces … Continue reading

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Dark Satanic Mills

What has become a cliché has its origins in a piece of verse by William Blake. In my ignorance too, I understood the Dark Satanic Mills as the textile factories of the Industrial Revolution where children and poor people worked … Continue reading

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Replacing Christianity?

Some brief correspondence with my sister who is a convinced Baptist indirectly brought my mind to a website I discovered independently a day or two ago, The Spiritual Basis of Romanticism. Before any attempt to make intelligent observations, I tried … Continue reading

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Conference in Oxford

I have just successfully applied for the possibility to attend a conference to be held at St Stephen’s House, Oxford, on 25th and 26th April this year. It will be just a few days after our Diocesan Synod in London … Continue reading

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The Legacy of the Enlightenment

I have a look at Signs of the Times most days. It is one of those alternative news sites to take with a pinch of salt. It doesn’t go to the extremes of David Icke or Alex Jones, but is … Continue reading

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