Tag Archives: New Goliards

Reflections on the Decline of Christian Europe

Posted on Thursday, 31 October, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have been on this subject before, and I may have some insight not being a sociologist or a “new atheist”. It is very difficult to get any kind of objective understanding of a situation that seems to elude anything … Continue reading →

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Church Hopping

Posted on Tuesday, 22 October, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I was certainly a little uncharitable about jibing someone for church-hopping when I have done it myself. I was originally Church of England, was Roman Catholic for about fifteen years, was in the traditionalist fringes for a little under ten … Continue reading →

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More Reflections on Freedom and “The Pit”

Posted on Sunday, 13 October, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I often return to the recurring theme in my life, and I still work at it and do all I can to “reality-check” it. This theme is one of the relationship between the human person (me or anyone else) with … Continue reading →

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Stages of Spiritual Life

Posted on Wednesday, 4 September, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

A comment came in yesterday to ask for my reflections on James Fowler’s Stages of Faith Development. I answered This review seems very interesting. I haven’t read Fowler’s book, but I might be tempted to order it. The stages seem … Continue reading →

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My Goliards

Posted on Thursday, 15 August, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have been out of touch with the Ordinariate movement for a very long time, and I had more or less assumed that everything was cut and dried, sorted as they say up in Manchester. But as they also say … Continue reading →

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Fourteenth Century Catholicism in a Dead Language?

Posted on Saturday, 29 June, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Yes, I look at the “progressive” point of view as well as everyone else’s. The so-called Enlightened Catholicism blog has done a trashing job on the traditionalists by contrasting the way Benedict XVI hoped to deal with the Society of … Continue reading →

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Another Nibble at Christian Anarchism

Posted on Sunday, 23 June, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It’s not the first time I have brought this subject up (Christian Anarchism and a very recent one, The Mustard Seed), and this is a hotly debated subject. The word anarchism has a very negative ring, implying the mindless ideology of a … Continue reading →

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Valid but Irregular?

Posted on Thursday, 20 June, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have been getting some new responses to an earlier article, Vagante Bishops and Aping Rome, about a small number of individuals who get themselves ordained and consecrated bishops by prelates on whom they count for getting themselves recognised as valid … Continue reading →

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The Mustard Seed

Posted on Wednesday, 19 June, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Most of us reading this kind of blog are familiar with the various Kingdom Parables in the Gospel. Some are easier to interpret than others. In the Parable of the Sower, Jesus gives the meaning. The mustard seed is the … Continue reading →

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Is Christianity Dying?

Posted on Saturday, 15 June, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It’s an old question, and someone kindly send me a link by e-mail to Fr Guy Winfrey’s blog and its article under this very same title – Is Christianity Dying?. Fr Winfrey is an Orthodox priest, but speaks of Christianity … Continue reading →

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