Author Archives: Fr Anthony Chadwick

Fr Stephen Smuts is back

Posted on Wednesday, 7 October, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

On 20th September this year, Fr Stephen Smuts of the TAC in South Africa revived his blog: It’s Been a While… There are also some other articles on the blog since then. Fr Smuts is particularly interested in biblical archaeology. He … Continue reading →

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When the King goes crazy

Posted on Wednesday, 7 October, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It happened in England in the late eighteenth century: It would seem that the same thing is happening in Saudi Arabia – Power Grab in Riyadh Likely After Saudi King ‘Hospitalized for Dementia’. I have the impression that historic events … Continue reading →

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Moderate Terrorists

Posted on Monday, 5 October, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I jot this down with some trepidation having read the news about Russia doing more harm to ISIS / Daesh in one day than the Americans and British in a year. The latest whingeing and whining from Washington is that … Continue reading →

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Long haired priests

Posted on Monday, 5 October, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I hesitated writing about this, as it concerns something so trifling as not to merit much attention. Some people do ask the question, as attested by my stats page – Are priests allowed to have long hair? I suppose I … Continue reading →

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Series on the Sarum Use

Posted on Thursday, 1 October, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is little more than a heads-up on a series of articles on the Sarum Use by Rad Trad, the first of which is The Sarum Rite I: A Brief History. The historical view is important, but I notice the … Continue reading →

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Just the sort of thing that makes religion nonsense

Posted on Wednesday, 30 September, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Reams have been written about the notions of truth and ideology, the latter word being extremely ambiguous and difficult to define with any accuracy. Many of us grew up in the latter half of the twentieth century, only a few … Continue reading →

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Secularism and Christianity

Posted on Tuesday, 29 September, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is a fine article – The Offer You Can’t Refuse (the Secular World) One thing that comes out of this is that for as long as churches try to ape the secular world (bureaucracy, steering committees, etc.) we know … Continue reading →

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Christian Romanticism

Posted on Wednesday, 23 September, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

We don’t seem to see an end to the depressing binary dialectic between “cultural Christianity” and conservative Catholicism, Protestantism and Orthodoxy, especially in the American scene. This side of the Atlantic, outside imported American religion, Christianity is decaying like its … Continue reading →

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Daemonium Meridianum

Posted on Tuesday, 22 September, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Most of us are familiar with Psalm 90 (91) which is said every evening at Compline, that wonderful intimate Office that monks sing by heart in the darkness. As Christ was comforted and protected in the desert, despite the Devil … Continue reading →

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Charlie Hebdo back in the News

Posted on Tuesday, 15 September, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I’m going to have to be careful on this subject. So far, I have tried to stay away from the subject of the Middle East, the involvement of the west, the situation of thousands of political and economic refugees desperately … Continue reading →

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