Tag Archives: Reflections

My Take on Transcendentalism

Posted on Sunday, 11 June, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is something that has been going through my mind for a while, but I have felt inhibited by the idea of promoting yet another “label”, closing personal thoughts, feelings and aspirations into yet another conventional category. This is the … 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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Enthusiasm

Posted on Thursday, 18 May, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Fr Jonathan has gone and fired up my mind again between getting my “hard bastard” week in my boat ready, rebuilding rotten french windows and biting the bullet with a 8,000-word job last night that I wasn’t counting on. I … Continue reading →

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The dialogue of reconstruction continues

Posted on Tuesday, 9 May, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Pruning the Rose-tinted spectacles by Fr Jonathan Munn. I love the eloquence of his writing and his vast culture not only in the sciences and mathematics, but also in art and beauty. He quips at me for “cruelly” accusing him … Continue reading →

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John Bruce has another go…

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

See Money And Numbers I don’t know what Mr Bruce means by “recently”, because it is a long time since I concerned myself with his ongoing narrative about continuing Anglicanism and the Ordinariate. I have just left off and done … Continue reading →

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Fools’ Gold?

Posted on Monday, 24 April, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

A kind correspondent has written to me, particularly to draw my attention to an article written by (Fr) Tony Equale, a Roman Catholic priest who left the priesthood and became highly critical of classical Catholicism, especially the heritage of the … Continue reading →

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What is Catholicism?

Posted on Thursday, 20 April, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This question comes up in my mind, and not for the first time. The idea came from a blog post written by a convert to Roman Catholicism with a highly critical attitude in regard to Continuing Anglicanism and even to … Continue reading →

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A Reflection for Holy Week

Posted on Monday, 10 April, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Doing my rounds this morning, I came across this article The Virtue of Despair. I immediately identified with the reflection of the nihilist philosopher Nietzsche: Out of such abysses, from such severe sickness one returns newborn, having shed one’s skin, … Continue reading →

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Musings on Philosophy

Posted on Saturday, 11 March, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It was in 1985 that I began philosophy in Rome, at the Angelicum University. Each morning, I would walk about two miles up from the Lateran, through a narrow street towards the north and past the Colosseum, to the Piazza … Continue reading →

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Who am I?

Posted on Wednesday, 8 March, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

There is another fine posting by my brother in the priesthood, Fr Jonathan Munn – Fatally self-defined. At first sight, it may seem to coincide with my own discussions of Asperger Syndrome and the way some use it as an … Continue reading →

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