Tag Archives: Conservatism / Liberalism

Herding Cats Revisited

Posted on Sunday, 19 May, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

My wife and I have two adorable Chartreux cats who luxuriate in their thick and soft grey fur, named Celestine and her biological offspring is called Doucelin. We are woken each morning by incessant head-rubbing and purring as these two … Continue reading →

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Radical Orthodoxy Revisited

Posted on Sunday, 28 April, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I am usually sensitive enough to pick up on the somewhat dated movement of some English academics called Radical Orthodoxy. As an Anglican movement attracted to ressourcement theology, neo-patristics and Platonism, it has seems exciting and appealing as a “third … Continue reading →

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Hans Küng is extremely delighted

Posted on Sunday, 17 March, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Pope Francis: Reformers call unexpected pick ‘a very happy surprise’ For a conservative, this would be a damning indictment for the Franciscan Papacy. From the little I have read of Hans Küng, particularly his introduction to Hans Bernard Hasler’s How … Continue reading →

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Not the SSPX but non-European

Posted on Saturday, 2 March, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I’m beginning to like this new blog I have discovered, at least for the time being and without having corresponded with this fellow. He wrote About that deadline… yesterday. Having known the Society of St Pius X in France and … Continue reading →

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A Couple of Articles

Posted on Wednesday, 27 February, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I got the heads-up this morning in my mailbox. Shock Therapy – Could the next Pope learn from Benedict? I find this article of little interest, as I have found many analogies of little help. I think of the Ordinariate … Continue reading →

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De quoi devenir chèvre…

Posted on Tuesday, 26 February, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

The French have a wonderful expression – devenir chèvre, become a goat – for the way a human being reacts to an impossibly complicated or illogical situation that causes frustration and anger. It is often what we are confronted with … Continue reading →

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Panier de Crabes

Posted on Sunday, 24 February, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Un panier de crabes, meaning a basket of crabs, is frequently an expression French people use when considering the Vatican. Crabs are good to eat, when they are fished out of the sea, boiled alive and eaten cold or as … Continue reading →

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Help, the Loonies are taking over the Asylum!

Posted on Sunday, 20 January, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Sorry for the provocative title, but the current exchange of comments on Re-reforming Anglicanism? raises many questions about the validity of the assumptions of any of us. Just this morning, I read in a magazine about the fact that the municipal … Continue reading →

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Facing a World without Christianity

Posted on Friday, 18 January, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I occasionally look at the blog of Fr Ray Blake, who is a Roman Catholic priest in Brighton. He bewails the increasing secularism in England through his entry of yesterday, Like the Monks of Egypt. I have very simple questions … Continue reading →

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A Few Links to the “Intégrisme” Theme

Posted on Wednesday, 9 January, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

All these links are in French. If you can read this language, then you will see that the polemics go back a very long way. Intégrisme (Wikipedia article). Les Amis du Christ-Roi en France – containing several documents on historical … Continue reading →

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