Tag Archives: Politics

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 Nietzschean Christian Übermensch

Posted on Friday, 28 February, 2025 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I stumbled across a video and an article about a French diocesan bishop expressing his views of traditionalist Catholics and a need to keep a close watch over those who celebrate and follow the old Latin liturgy. Mgr Jordy: l’ignorance … 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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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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If might is right…

Posted on Monday, 8 July, 2024 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have had a little time to digest the events of the political world in my own country and the nation of France which has adopted me as a citizen. I voted for the RN of M. Bardella and Mme … 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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Call for a New Christianity

Posted on Tuesday, 13 December, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I regularly receive e-mails from Dr William Tighe giving links to various bits of news and views about the Church and the moral state of the modern world. I was particularly struck by this title of an article Pope Francis … Continue reading →

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A Third Way

Posted on Saturday, 12 November, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It proves very difficult to make any sense of the world, at least as it seems on the media and other internet sources. I live in the country and feel increasingly anxious faced with the prospect of travelling to a … Continue reading →

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Medieval Dystopia?

Posted on Saturday, 27 August, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

We are being bombarded by the media about the “climate emergency” and the consequences of Putin invading Ukraine and of the availability of affordable energy in the form of natural gas. We howl in the agony of worry and anxiety … Continue reading →

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