Author Archives: Fr Anthony Chadwick

My Take on Transcendentalism

Posted on Sunday, 11 June, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is something that has been going through my mind for a while, but I have felt inhibited by the idea of promoting yet another “label”, closing personal thoughts, feelings and aspirations into yet another conventional category. This is the … Continue reading →

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New Book on Palmar de Troya

Posted on Sunday, 11 June, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

See My new book on the Palmarian Church is now available by Magnus Lundberg. Lundberg, Magnus. A Pope of Their Own: Palmar de Troya and the Palmarian Church. Series: Uppsala Studies in Church History, volume 1. Uppsala: Uppsala University, Department … Continue reading →

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American Church? English Church?

Posted on Friday, 2 June, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Another fine article from Fr Jonathan Munn: Can there any good thing come out of America? I have been four times to the USA: January 1998 to Maryland, June 2002 and a year later to Tennessee and in December 2003 … Continue reading →

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A feast of Breton seafaring culture

Posted on Wednesday, 31 May, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I love this little slide show with traditional Breton bagpipe & drum music. It is the Grand Parade of last Saturday. My tiny boat is occasionally seen but was far from being the most eye-catching or interesting, among those splendid … Continue reading →

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Flattering…

Posted on Tuesday, 30 May, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This just came in from my editor, Dom Alcuin Reid. I will give a couple of comments after this review by the Jesuit priest Fr Baldovin. * * * T&T Clark Companion to Liturgy. Edited by Alcuin Reid. New York, … Continue reading →

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First Signs of Life…

Posted on Monday, 29 May, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I got back from home last night after a trailer tyre blowout on the motorway. I had no spare wheel, so I had to dismantle the wheel in question and use a tyre from my launching trolley as a “jury … Continue reading →

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Enthusiasm

Posted on Thursday, 18 May, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Fr Jonathan has gone and fired up my mind again between getting my “hard bastard” week in my boat ready, rebuilding rotten french windows and biting the bullet with a 8,000-word job last night that I wasn’t counting on. I … Continue reading →

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Semaine du Golfe 2017

Posted on Monday, 15 May, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Every two years, I celebrate the feast of the Ascension afloat, like two years ago at the Semaine du Golfe 2015. The almost landlocked gulf (Golfe du Morbihan) looks tiny on the map, crowned by the cathedral city of Vannes … Continue reading →

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Superfluity of naughtiness

Posted on Sunday, 14 May, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

– “Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls” (James 1. xxi – Epistle for the fourth Sunday after Easter). It always brings a smile … Continue reading →

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Liberalism

Posted on Wednesday, 10 May, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Another blockbuster has appeared on Fr Jonathan Munn’s blog – The Twelve Theses of John Shelby Spong. I too have toyed with the ideas of Bishop Spong, Tony Equale in Australia and the religionless Christianity of Bonhöffer. The latter at … Continue reading →

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