Tag Archives: Religious pathology

Vagante Bishops and Aping Rome

Posted on Wednesday, 13 March, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

In my posting of 5th March, Towards the Unknown, I mentioned an individual described by the secular press as a fake bishop who tried to infiltrate himself into a pre-conclave meeting of Cardinals. I made fun of the individual mainly on … Continue reading →

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Facing a World without Christianity

Posted on Friday, 18 January, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I occasionally look at the blog of Fr Ray Blake, who is a Roman Catholic priest in Brighton. He bewails the increasing secularism in England through his entry of yesterday, Like the Monks of Egypt. I have very simple questions … Continue reading →

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Is the Society of St Pius X Old Catholic?

Posted on Tuesday, 15 January, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This question is asked by Bishop Chandler Holder Jones in SSPX. Here is his article: The Priestly Society of Saint Pius X, the most well-known Latin Rite traditionalist movement, now appears to be, by the description of its Superior General … Continue reading →

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A Few Links to the “Intégrisme” Theme

Posted on Wednesday, 9 January, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

All these links are in French. If you can read this language, then you will see that the polemics go back a very long way. Intégrisme (Wikipedia article). Les Amis du Christ-Roi en France – containing several documents on historical … Continue reading →

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An Excellent Explanation of French “Intégrisme”

Posted on Tuesday, 8 January, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This comment on Fr Smuts’ blog about Bishop Fellay, superior of the Society of St Pius X, calling the Jews the “enemies of the Church” is worth reading. Friends used to joke with me in private, calling them the “Waffen … Continue reading →

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Is free Catholicism cognitively dissonant and/or deeply dishonest?

Posted on Monday, 7 January, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I can sometimes understand why atheists like Richard Dawkins would have things in such a way as Christians would be no more acceptable in society than Holocaust deniers and flat-earth fanatics. Perhaps he would like to be a new Robespierre … Continue reading →

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Et in Arcadia Ego

Posted on Wednesday, 28 November, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is the title of the opening section of Evelyn’s Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, a description of the life of an undergraduate at Oxford University in the 1920’s and his friendship with an aristocratic family with no financial worries. I see … Continue reading →

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The Dream of Non-Papal Catholicism

Posted on Monday, 26 November, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Young Fogey is writing on a favourite theme, trying to prove that only Roman Catholicism is viable enough to foster and continue the Catholic way into the future. One by one, he proceeds to trash the alternatives. The disillusionment of … Continue reading →

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Another Kind of Traditionalism

Posted on Tuesday, 20 November, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Traditionalism seems to be one of the most polyvalent words I have ever come across, meaning so many different concepts. People of so many different and opposing ideas often call themselves traditionalists. I have just spent seven years as a … Continue reading →

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Evil as the Absence of Empathy

Posted on Wednesday, 7 November, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Last night for just under three hours, I watched the film made in around 2000 about the Nuremberg Trials of the leading war criminals in 1945-46. I found the acting brilliant, especially the psychopathic manipulation and evil “aura” of Herman … Continue reading →

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