Author Archives: Fr Anthony Chadwick

Updated Statistics

Posted on Thursday, 22 October, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This blog, set up in January 2012, is nearly four years old. My statistics page informs me that it has had 585,742 views and 7,075 comments. It contains a total of 1,072 postings excluding this one. My peak day was … Continue reading →

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Washing a Quilt

Posted on Tuesday, 20 October, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It is quite amazing how things follow on from each other. Our quilt got pissed on by one of our cats, and the time came today to wash it. Too big for a domestic washing machine, so I had to … Continue reading →

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Tattoos

Posted on Sunday, 18 October, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Interesting article: A theory for tattoos I have always cringed when seeing tattooed skin. My father warned us his children particularly against hard drugs and tattoos. I didn’t always heed his advice, but I did in these matters. I have … Continue reading →

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Ordinariate Market Research

Posted on Sunday, 18 October, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

He’s written another one What Is The Market For Anglicanorum coetibus? Before I set up as a translator at the beginning of this century, I did a brief course of business studies: the idea we want to sell, what we … Continue reading →

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More liturgical matters

Posted on Friday, 16 October, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Again, I go into a subject from which there is little to conclude definitively. I do so because there have been a few exchanges between one blog and another. The real issue I read in these various posts is one … Continue reading →

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A tough sell…

Posted on Thursday, 15 October, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is something to think about. Darkness comes over the world like in the Hitler or Stalin regimes or something like Orwell’s dystopia. The Party has the ultimate means of turning believers into atheists and correcting anyone with politically incorrect … Continue reading →

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Gentrified Catholicism

Posted on Tuesday, 13 October, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Last Saturday, I attended a Confirmation ceremony of my wife’s thirteen-year old niece in a school chapel in Vesinet. This is quite a chic area near Versailles and in the Diocese by that name. The nineteenth-century houses are in leafy … Continue reading →

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Mass of the Five Wounds

Posted on Monday, 12 October, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I had a comment asking for the English text of the Votive Mass of the Five Wounds, featuring in the Sarum missal and the fine translation by Canon Warren. It is a very beautiful devotion, paralleling devotion to the Sacred … Continue reading →

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Book published

Posted on Monday, 12 October, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

The T&T Clark Companion to Liturgy is now published. It contains a condensed version of my university work on the Roman rite of Mass from the Council of Trent and Pope Pius V. Chapter 6: The Roman Missal of the … Continue reading →

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Anglo-Catholic conspiracies?

Posted on Thursday, 8 October, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

The author of More On Anglican Papalism seems to have bitten off a little more than he can chew when attempting a criticism of English Anglo-Papalism. It just doesn’t seem to match what I have experienced in my native country. … Continue reading →

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