Author Archives: Fr Anthony Chadwick

The Potomac two-step

Posted on Monday, 8 January, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

On receiving an e-mail from a correspondent in Belgium this morning, I was reminded of a film I once saw of Harrison Ford with a fictitious American President. The President reminds Ford about the realities of Washington politics and the … Continue reading →

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Another response to my brother priest

Posted on Sunday, 7 January, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

As promised, since I am well advanced with my translation orders that have to be delivered tomorrow. I have done about 26,000 words in only four days, but with the help of automatic translation – a very good and intuitive … Continue reading →

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Some Trumpish Levity

Posted on Sunday, 7 January, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I really do try to stay off politics on this blog, but I found this amazing cartoon on Facebook. The political correctness obviously refers to the notion expressed by Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four, whereby conformity to an ideology takes precedence … Continue reading →

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Fr Jonathan Munn begins the year with a bang!

Posted on Saturday, 6 January, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Sorry for the corny title! Fr Jonathan has reached the end of his tether with Facebook. That is something I fully understand, though I have learned to use Facebook with great care and understanding it as a place for special … Continue reading →

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In these early days of 2018

Posted on Wednesday, 3 January, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I belatedly wish my readers a happy New Year. The Christmas Octave is over and we celebrate the octaves of St John, the Holy innocents, and then the Vigil of the Epiphany with the octave of St Thomas of Canterbury. … Continue reading →

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Prognostics for Blogging

Posted on Friday, 29 December, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I was doing my daily rounds and found Fr Jonathan’s Blogday 2017: The beautiful feet of the Laity. I think he began his article with the tongue-in-cheek epitaph “Blogging, apparently, is a dying form which makes this, as usual, a … Continue reading →

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Epistemology?

Posted on Thursday, 28 December, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

In my previous posting, I was concerned with “truth claims”. The truth one person believes in, alone or in consensus with a number of others, has to apply to all – by force if necessary. I don’t have a scientific … Continue reading →

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Swimming Rivers

Posted on Wednesday, 27 December, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

There has been a long thread on the Facebook Discussion Group for Anglicans Considering the Anglican Continuum (closed group). It concerns the relative merits of those Anglicans who become Roman Catholics through the Ordinariate or normal diocesan channels, or yet via … Continue reading →

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Railways and Theology

Posted on Wednesday, 27 December, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

The latest from John Bruce is quite a jaw-drop. I’m sure quite a few keep a watch on his blog without making any ado – as is usually the case for me. In A New Angle On The Oxford Movement, we … Continue reading →

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Happy Christmas!

Posted on Saturday, 23 December, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I’m sending out this somewhat secular e-Christmas card to all my readers, but depictions of the Nativity of Christ can be found in my greeting postings of previous years. So I have found this nice painting of Saint (Nic)Claus transposed … Continue reading →

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