Author Archives: Fr Anthony Chadwick

The Slaughter of the Innocents

The scourge of abortion is bad enough, but I went onto Facebook a few minutes ago. All of a sudden, I saw a large and shallow wooden box with what appeared to be dolls. They were not dolls but real … Continue reading

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Bootleg Liturgy under Prohibition

I couldn’t resist the temptation, since I have been offering reflections on drugs, addiction and prohibition. I can almost imaging the cops in some American village descending on a church and demanding to see what books are on the altar … Continue reading

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Annunciation

We are at sixes and sevens this year, because the feast of the Annunciation was trumped by Good Friday. When that happens, by Holy Week or the Easter Octave, the Annunciation is transferred to the first available day after the … Continue reading

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Shape-shifting Jesus?

This title may seem provocative or even blasphemous, but reading the Gospel this morning (Quasimodo Wednesday in the Use of Sarum) troubled me profoundly. The passage in question (Mark 16) contains: Now when Jesus was risen early the first day … Continue reading

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Use of Sarum on Facebook

It was a while ago since I set up the Use of Sarum group on Facebook. It gathered momentum fairly quickly and now it has 346 members including Dr William Renwick who is a university professor in Canada (music) and … Continue reading

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More on Addiction

Updating my article of a few days ago on drugs, I have just discovered this amazing article Dr. Gabor Maté on the Stress-Disease Connection, Addiction and the Destruction of American Childhood. We read some extraordinary insights into the psychology of … Continue reading

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A little more about Archbishop Lefebvre

I was recently given the link to this video by a correspondent who was once a seminarian at Ecône and knew Archbishop Lefebvre rather well. This video is intended as a reply to a polemical book against sedevacantism, theory represented … Continue reading

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Classical Catholicism

In the wake of recent reflections about the Roman Catholic traditionalist world, I am brought to offer a few reflections from my point of view as it developed over the years since I left the Institute of Christ the King … Continue reading

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Drugs

I have occasionally had occasion to write about addiction and reflect on points of view of those who are truly informed from medical and psychological points of view. Many things to which we can become addicted can be dangerous for … Continue reading

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Fraud or Illusion?

I have just written the third of a thread of comments concerning Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (1905-1991) and the Roman Catholic traditionalist movement. I have seen some of Patrick’s articles in his own blog, and he obviously said his piece to … Continue reading

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