Tag Archives: Religious pathology

Enigma Variations

Posted on Tuesday, 29 October, 2019 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

No, this is not the beautiful music of Elgar, but another set of variations on the mystery of why so many men want to assume the role of the Pope, or find a solution to the contradiction between their belief … Continue reading →

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La Nausée

Posted on Friday, 25 October, 2019 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Yes, from the very author who wrote “Hell is other people” – L’enfer c’est les autres in his play Huis clos. Jean-Paul Sartre was unfamiliar with the various grotesque parodies of churches and bishops one occasionally sees on the Internet. … Continue reading →

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Muscular Christianity

Posted on Saturday, 3 August, 2019 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is one of my favourite Don Camillo films. In this except, Peppone goes to confession, for the first time since 1918. He has little to confess, and Don Camillo gives him Absolution. Afterwards, he says to himself “I’m going … Continue reading →

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Palmar de Destroya

Posted on Sunday, 9 December, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Update: His former Holiness is going to court – El ex papa de El Palmar, procesado por intentar robar su antigua iglesia con una careta de payaso. Markus Lundberg is quoted on Facebook as saying – The trial against the … Continue reading →

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More on Wooden-Leg French

Posted on Tuesday, 30 October, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I am still in the midst of sorting out paperwork for my French nationality application, and this is something I just hate doing. It revolts me to the tips of my fingers – as the French say – and it … Continue reading →

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I’ll cut your leg off any day!

Posted on Tuesday, 2 October, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

When I approach certain subjects, I keep thinking about the ship’s surgeon on the Bounty in the 1935 film, who had a different story to relate to each person about how he lost his leg, and that he would gladly … Continue reading →

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The mask comes away…

Posted on Tuesday, 18 September, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have come across a review of a book on the history of Vatican I (1870) in Vatican I, Pius IX, and the problem of ultramontanism. The article is published in a Roman Catholic site, and criticism from such a … Continue reading →

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The Wooden Leg

Posted on Wednesday, 22 August, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

There is a film from 1935 about the infamous mutiny on the Bounty of 1789, the earliest which depicts Captain Bligh as a sadist who loved whipping and keel-hauling his crew. Historical evidence now tends to set William Bligh (1754 … Continue reading →

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A Storm in a Teacup

Posted on Saturday, 21 July, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

My attention was drawn to an article in Fr Robert Hart’s blog – Convert Orthodoxy as Media Echo Chamber and the use made of it by You-Know-Who to portray Anglican / Anglo – Catholics as faux Catholics. I had brushes with … Continue reading →

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Rapture?

Posted on Friday, 13 April, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

The junk-religion merchants, especially on YouTube, are at it again. This time, they are proclaiming the end of the world and the “rapture” for 18th April, only five days from now. The Americans are rattling the sabre against the Syrians … Continue reading →

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