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Author Archives: Fr Anthony Chadwick
Liturgists and Terrorists
It’s an old quip: the difference between a terrorist and a liturgist. You can negotiate with a terrorist – unless he cuts your throat with a knife or blows you up with a bomb shouting the middle-eastern equivalent of Heil … Continue reading
A Basket of Crabs
Un panier de crabes doesn’t mean very much in English, but I was appalled on reading The Sacra Liturgia Conference has set the cause of the Reform of the Reform back by 20 years. That may not be a bad … Continue reading
Eastward position back in the news
I don’t look at Roman Catholic news very often these days, so I go from hat tips coming from Dr Willam Tighe and Fr Hunwicke. On Orientophobia: Coming out of the Liturgical Closet. Update: Who’s Afraid of Ad Orientem? We … Continue reading
La Fête Nationale
I live in France, and tomorrow, the 14th of July, it is a national holiday that celebrates the storming of the Bastille in 1789. It was a symbolic event, since there were few prisoners in the place. One was the … Continue reading
Photos of my Cruise
I have been doing some light editing with Photoshop. The later photos were blurred by seawater on the lens and salt deposits. This is something to be constantly watched! This was my first point of interest just after I passed … Continue reading
Les Pertuis
Update: I did it, about the greatest distance I have covered at once in my 12 foot dinghy. I have yet to enhance my few presentable photos through Photoshop, so will do so on a following post. The problem with … Continue reading
A man after my own heart
Thanks to the internet, one can come into contact with the most amazing characters who like me mess about in boats. I have often mentioned Roger Barnes who has quite a high profile on Facebook and is an architect by … Continue reading
A response to Patrick…
As promised, I give a few ideas in response to Patrick’s post A response to Fr Anthony… that responded to my recent posting on the Beast of Nazism and similar ideologies. As William Tighe suggested in his comment, there is … Continue reading
The Beast Awakens
There are several films dealing with this ungodly fascination with a subject that is both taboo and a part of the way things seem to be going. The above clip is from The Boys from Brazil starring Gregory Peck as … Continue reading
Arts and Crafts Revisited
If any of you are on Pinterest, there is a lovely page on the Arts & Crafts style. This style (dating from about 1890 to 1914, surviving to some extent in the 1920’s and in some examples of Art Deco) … Continue reading
The Blue Flower 