Tag Archives: Mystery of Evil

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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The Simple Priest

Posted on Monday, 17 November, 2025 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It is now a very long time since I was a deacon in the Roman Catholic Church, and I was finally away from that situation in late 1997 after my stay at Triors Abbey. I wandered into the sedevacantist vagante … Continue reading →

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Returning to Writing

Posted on Thursday, 4 September, 2025 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It is a long time since I last wrote on my blog. Perhaps it is a case of writer’s block or any one of those spiritual / psychological conditions that cause us to lose interest in things as our world … 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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Rabbit Holes

Posted on Sunday, 26 January, 2025 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have been very quiet as of late in the current controversies surrounding the inauguration of Donald Trump, Europe, the UK, Net Zero, electric cars, China and Russia, Islam, terrorists and grooming gangs, the Church and Pope Francis, American “woke” … Continue reading →

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Evil and Beauty

Posted on Saturday, 28 December, 2024 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Today is the feast of the Holy Innocents. Following a message from heaven in a dream, Joseph took Mary and the Infant to Egypt to take refuge, in an image of the First Exile of the Israelites to the same … Continue reading →

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Jansenism

Posted on Wednesday, 11 December, 2024 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is a fascinating dialogue from a non-polemical point of view on Jansenism. At the same time, a historical examination of this sectarian movement in French Catholicism is very sobering in the light of contemporary experience. Some aspects of Jansenism, … 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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Till Trump from East to West

Posted on Sunday, 27 October, 2024 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

What goes around comes around. Reading and hearing all the hype about the US Presidential Election, the lovely Easter carol comes into my mind and leaves me with a smile. Till trump from east to west shall wake the dead … Continue reading →

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The Byronic Hero of the Seas

Posted on Monday, 30 September, 2024 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It was back in June 2017 when I wrote a piece on that fictional and archetypal figure Captain Nemo. The Nemo Syndrome I bring this subject up simply because I decided to have a relaxing evening watching the 1954 Walt Disney … Continue reading →

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