Tag Archives: Moral questions

Liturgical Beauty and Homosexuality

Posted on Tuesday, 30 December, 2025 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

A few days ago, I found this horrifying text on Facebook. It is a question asked of an internet-based AI system. AI plagiarises everything it has received from human writings, and then uses an algorithm to imitate human reasoning. It … Continue reading →

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In the Midst of our Confusion and Anxiety

Posted on Tuesday, 9 December, 2025 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have already introduced a couple of posts with the title of an encyclical that Pius XI had written in German in 1937, a translation of the title being “It is with deep anxiety and growing surprise…” in reaction to … Continue reading →

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Another Christianity, Another Humanity

Posted on Saturday, 1 February, 2025 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have read articles and watched YouTube videos (I do not have a television) about the issues and the floods of executive orders coming from the President’s desk. We have notably the burning issues of illegal immigration, insecurity, “woke” ideology … Continue reading →

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The Art of Selfishness

Posted on Wednesday, 1 January, 2025 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have just finished reading Andrea Wulf’s book on the Jena Idealists and one of the strongest points of origin of the Romantic worldview. As she closed the book after a chapter about the wider influence of the Jena Set … Continue reading →

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Collective Humanity Syndrome

Posted on Thursday, 14 November, 2024 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have had very little to say these last few days about Justin Welby, resigned Archbishop of Canterbury, as with the English Prime Minister Kier Starmer. I have watched videos on YouTube and seen articles on Google News, at least … Continue reading →

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Stella

Posted on Friday, 1 December, 2023 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

From 1964 until 1967, I went to the local primary school, Castle Street School in Kendal. It was a run-of-the-mill nominally Anglican primary school for children of 5 to 11 years old. Pupils were prepared for the Eleven-Plus, a test … Continue reading →

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Go Forth and Multiply

Posted on Sunday, 20 November, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I find it quite ironic that we are informed that the world is being suffocated under the weight of eight to ten billion humans in this world. The biggest populations seem to be in China, India and the African continent, … Continue reading →

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Validity of a Church’s Orders

Posted on Friday, 21 January, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

There has been a recent scuffle on the internet about the validity of Orders in the Anglican Catholic Church. The person concerned is a priest of one of the American continuing Anglican Churches and seems to be drifting towards the … Continue reading →

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Flogging made a bad man worse, and broke a good man’s heart

Posted on Tuesday, 14 December, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I answered another message about someone’s ideas about a political regime based on Old Testament law as advocated by the Reconstructionist movement. I have just found this video which is heavy going for one who is not used to American … Continue reading →

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Christian Integralism and Humanism

Posted on Monday, 13 December, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This talk was inspired by some correspondence with a person who is wondering about what I would call a fundamentalist and puritan Christian totalitarian theocracy. I give a few elements of my refusal of such a system in favour of … Continue reading →

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