Tag Archives: Politics

Piss-ups in Breweries

Posted on Friday, 14 September, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

In two hundred days, the 29th March 2019, the UK will leave the European Union and go to the “good old days”. I won’t go into the details of everything I have been reading in the news. You can read … Continue reading →

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Coming soon to a cinema near you…

Posted on Sunday, 15 April, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Macron seems to be a guest star in all this. Boom!

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Cosmopolitanism

Posted on Monday, 19 February, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Pauline Kleingeld’s article about Novalis’ cosmopolitanism has struck a note with me. It left me a little frustrated in asking myself the question – What’s the use? Will philosophy change anything? Will our personal world views change anything? Does it … Continue reading →

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Questo Stronzo di Paolo Sesto

Posted on Friday, 9 February, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

In the light of the upcoming canonisation of Pope Paul VI, and my attention drawn to the Rad Trad blog, I find this posting on Fr Gregor Hesse Contra Mundum. I find a link to an earlier article on this … Continue reading →

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A Different View of Diversity

Posted on Wednesday, 17 January, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

On my daily rounds of the Internet, I try to keep to things that are inspiring and positive, unlike news (whether fake or “official”), but I could not resist a comparison between someone giving a personal answer to the question … Continue reading →

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Some Trumpish Levity

Posted on Sunday, 7 January, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I really do try to stay off politics on this blog, but I found this amazing cartoon on Facebook. The political correctness obviously refers to the notion expressed by Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four, whereby conformity to an ideology takes precedence … Continue reading →

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Swimming Rivers

Posted on Wednesday, 27 December, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

There has been a long thread on the Facebook Discussion Group for Anglicans Considering the Anglican Continuum (closed group). It concerns the relative merits of those Anglicans who become Roman Catholics through the Ordinariate or normal diocesan channels, or yet via … Continue reading →

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Individualism and Selfishness

Posted on Tuesday, 27 June, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

1971 was a turning point in my life, and I found myself faced with the alternatives of what can be termed individualism and collectivism. A boy of 12 doesn’t have many choices in life: he follows rules and directives at … Continue reading →

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American Church? English Church?

Posted on Friday, 2 June, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Another fine article from Fr Jonathan Munn: Can there any good thing come out of America? I have been four times to the USA: January 1998 to Maryland, June 2002 and a year later to Tennessee and in December 2003 … Continue reading →

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Le lendemain…

Posted on Monday, 8 May, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I’m sure my readers would like to know what I think of the results of the French presidential election and the victory of Emmanuel Macron. As with the events surrounding President Trump, I am confused and saddened by the conflicting … Continue reading →

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