Author Archives: Fr Anthony Chadwick

Stephen Hawking RIP

Posted on Wednesday, 14 March, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have never really had much interest in Stephen Hawking, who has just died. He was an atheist and a materialist. For a scientist, I have often been surprised at his idea that humanity would find another planet to live … Continue reading →

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Owen Barfield

Posted on Friday, 9 March, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Some recent comments encouraged me to look up Owen Barfield, a long-standing friend of C.S. Lewis and partly behind Lewis’ conversion from atheism to Christianity. I draw my readers’ attention to Owen Barfield (1898 – 1997). My swallowing reflex comes … Continue reading →

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Postmodernist Bilgewater Generator

Posted on Thursday, 8 March, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have just discovered this hilarious computer programme, the Postmodern Essay Generator that generates anything a post-modernist student could ever want if he is late handing in an essay. Every time you renew this page, you get a completely different … Continue reading →

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Encouraging Liturgical Developments

Posted on Wednesday, 7 March, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

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?

Posted on Wednesday, 7 March, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

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…

Posted on Tuesday, 6 March, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

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

Posted on Monday, 5 March, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

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

Posted on Wednesday, 28 February, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

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

Posted on Monday, 26 February, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

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

Posted on Sunday, 25 February, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

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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