Tag Archives: Mystery of Evil

Article on Fundamentalism

Posted on Saturday, 13 August, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

A comment in this blog and an e-mail from one of my brother priests drew my attention to Fundamentalism is intellectual suicide by an Orthodox abbot. He does not go very much into the question of what fundamentalism is in … Continue reading →

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Fr Jacques Hamel, Martyr

Posted on Tuesday, 26 July, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

For the first time in my life, I have said Mass in honour of a Martyr the very day of his death. Until this morning, this retired priest of the Archdiocese of Rouen was helping out in his local parish, … Continue reading →

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La Fête Nationale

Posted on Wednesday, 13 July, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I live in France, and tomorrow, the 14th of July, it is a national holiday that celebrates the storming of the Bastille in 1789. It was a symbolic event, since there were few prisoners in the place. One was the … Continue reading →

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Christian Humanism

Posted on Sunday, 12 June, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

The themes keep going through my mind – those of the Romantic’s lament over our passing as humans and our being brought back to a kind of feudal existence under the domination of the strongest. We have to begin with … Continue reading →

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The Slaughter of the Innocents

Posted on Thursday, 7 April, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

The scourge of abortion is bad enough, but I went onto Facebook a few minutes ago. All of a sudden, I saw a large and shallow wooden box with what appeared to be dolls. They were not dolls but real … Continue reading →

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Fraud or Illusion?

Posted on Tuesday, 29 March, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have just written the third of a thread of comments concerning Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (1905-1991) and the Roman Catholic traditionalist movement. I have seen some of Patrick’s articles in his own blog, and he obviously said his piece to … Continue reading →

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Ponerology

Posted on Wednesday, 16 March, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is a term with which I have been familiar for a few years. The term is based on the Greek word πονηρός, an adjective which is also used substantively, meaning pain-ridden, and by extension evil. Those who use the … Continue reading →

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Ungodly Alliances

Posted on Tuesday, 12 January, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

In the light of recent events, many of us are noticing that politicians who promote left-wing “politically correct” agendas are also favouring the growth of tendencies that one would imagine to be diametrically opposed to their own interests and any … Continue reading →

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Archons

Posted on Thursday, 31 December, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Modern cinema, especially in science fiction epics like Star Trek and Star Wars, is a dramatic reflection of human psychology and mythology. We find images of the conflict of good and evil often grossly simplified but often based on ideas … Continue reading →

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It’s all the fault of religion!

Posted on Friday, 18 December, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I had a phone conversation with my father a few days ago, and the subject of the troubles in the world came up. My father reacted by saying “It’s all the fault of religion”. Now, what should I have said? … Continue reading →

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