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Elite Christianity

Posted on Thursday, 22 March, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I suppose this is yet another variation on the old theme. I am occasionally confronted with the view according to which I must relate to the “masses” and adapt my religion as a priest in order to minister to all … Continue reading →

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Idealism, Realism and Churches

Posted on Wednesday, 21 March, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

My intuition of going the philosophical way seems to be confirmed by my posting on the recent developments in the American Anglican world and the emerging Old Catholicism from the Nordic Catholic Church and the PNCC. I am confronted by … Continue reading →

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John Bruce’s “Discernment”

Posted on Tuesday, 20 March, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is an interesting little post – Discernment. I am inclined to try to take it up in positive and helpful terms. John Bruce has been banging a drum about the Ordinariates for a long time and how the various … Continue reading →

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Completing the Reformation

Posted on Monday, 19 March, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I am not American and have no experience of the “second wave” of dissidence from the Canterbury Communion. All the same, I’m not surprised. My attention has been drawn to ACNA’s Anglo-Catholic Exodus. One of the ANCA dioceses is splitting away … Continue reading →

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Silver Jubilee of my Diaconate

Posted on Sunday, 18 March, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I was ordained a deacon twenty-five years ago (as of tomorrow 19th March) by Cardinal Pietro Palazzini in the seminary chapel of the Institute of Christ the King at Gricigliano. He was the same prelate who ordained the late Fr … Continue reading →

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British Left-Wing Press admits the Historical Evidence of Christ

Posted on Thursday, 15 March, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is quite impressive coming from the mainstream left-wing press in England: What is the historical evidence that Jesus Christ lived and died? The article was written by Simon Gathercole, Reader in New Testament Studies at the University of Cambridge. One … Continue reading →

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More on Godless Progress

Posted on Thursday, 15 March, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

My brother in the priesthood Fr Jonathan Munn has summed things up rather well in The Lie of Progress. I posted a comment there, which I quote here (with a couple of slight tweaks): Ideas are converging because you and … Continue reading →

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They call this science?

Posted on Wednesday, 14 March, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

  What would you say if someone told you they could kill you, embalm your brain and upload its memories to a computer? A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”. Nectome will preserve your brain, … Continue reading →

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Stephen Hawking RIP

Posted on Wednesday, 14 March, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have never really had much interest in Stephen Hawking, who has just died. He was an atheist and a materialist. For a scientist, I have often been surprised at his idea that humanity would find another planet to live … Continue reading →

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Owen Barfield

Posted on Friday, 9 March, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Some recent comments encouraged me to look up Owen Barfield, a long-standing friend of C.S. Lewis and partly behind Lewis’ conversion from atheism to Christianity. I draw my readers’ attention to Owen Barfield (1898 – 1997). My swallowing reflex comes … Continue reading →

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