Tag Archives: Reflections

This Blog’s Future

Posted on Sunday, 30 December, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I began this blog six years ago, in January 2012 at a time when The Anglo-Catholic blog had no more use for me and I deleted The English Catholic. I think many of us remember the turmoil and the clash … Continue reading →

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Cry to the Night

Posted on Wednesday, 19 December, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Words fail me as I look at the news and Facebook pages and see the blindness descending upon England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. It now seems late in the day to denounce details of the political process leading to … Continue reading →

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Sol Invictus and the Rite of Spring

Posted on Sunday, 2 December, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

We Christians usually come out with the same gripe each year when supermarkets start selling Christmas goods in October and Easter eggs and chocolate for children are on the shelves before the Epiphany Octave is over! Perhaps there is something … Continue reading →

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Strangers and Foreigners

Posted on Thursday, 8 November, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It is quite amazing to happen upon Fr Jonathan Munn’s new article “Loyal to a church that has passed away”. In this article is the eternal notion of our being foreigners and strangers in this world that exacts our compliance. … Continue reading →

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Summer Doldrums

Posted on Thursday, 16 August, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Gatteville lighthouse, north-eastern point of the Cotentin, light visible from the Isle of Wight Time has gone by since I last wrote anything here. Since my last posting, I have been at the campsite at Barfleur, and we will be … Continue reading →

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What are we trying to continue?

Posted on Tuesday, 10 July, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Some time ago, I resolved to step down from the sterile polemics with our friend in California – yes, you know who. I won’t give the link this time. He has noticed that the American Episcopal Church has decided to … Continue reading →

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Vocation

Posted on Wednesday, 13 June, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

After withdrawing from a particularly negative view of things as expressed in a certain blog, I turned more attentively to my nautical plans – only clothes and bathroom things into a dry bag, and everything will be just about ready … Continue reading →

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As the dust settles…

Posted on Saturday, 9 June, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It usually takes contradiction to come to a wise point of view. Thesis and antithesis bring about synthesis as we often oversimply from Hegel’s dialectics. I see caricatures all over the place, and the kind of thing that alienates most … Continue reading →

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Possibility Consciousness

Posted on Thursday, 12 April, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have come into contact with a most interesting gentleman by the name of Peter Rhodes-Dimmer. Some years ago, he bought the Chateau de Bambecq in French Flanders, near St Omer, and began to build up an ambitious humanist and … Continue reading →

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A Mark of Low Status?

Posted on Saturday, 24 March, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I think my term Elite Christianity has been misunderstood in some comments, and I have come across an article that gives me some insight into this ambiguity. “Engaging the Culture” Doesn’t Work Because Christian Beliefs Are a Mark of Low Status. … Continue reading →

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