Tag Archives: Roman Catholicism

Habemus Papam – 2005

Posted on Monday, 12 May, 2025 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I republish some blog postings I wrote about the election of Benedict XVI in 2005, now twenty years ago. I had not yet joined the Traditional Anglican Communion and I was quite disenchanted by the various options around me. I … Continue reading →

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The Nietzschean Christian Übermensch

Posted on Friday, 28 February, 2025 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I stumbled across a video and an article about a French diocesan bishop expressing his views of traditionalist Catholics and a need to keep a close watch over those who celebrate and follow the old Latin liturgy. Mgr Jordy: l’ignorance … Continue reading →

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Le Dialogue des Sourds

Posted on Wednesday, 19 June, 2024 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

News has broken over the past few days about an alleged intention of the Vatican (the Pope) to ban the “extraordinary form” of the liturgy once and for all. I have been listening to various podcasts on Youtube from devout … Continue reading →

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Benedict XVI (1927-2022)

Posted on Wednesday, 4 January, 2023 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Last New Year’s Eve, I read the news of Pope Benedict XVI’s death about two hours after it occurred. I was struck by the date being the very last day of the year 2022 in which Queen Elizabeth II died, … Continue reading →

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Call for a New Christianity

Posted on Tuesday, 13 December, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I regularly receive e-mails from Dr William Tighe giving links to various bits of news and views about the Church and the moral state of the modern world. I was particularly struck by this title of an article Pope Francis … Continue reading →

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Liturgical Nihilism

Posted on Wednesday, 6 July, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

For those who read French, I draw your attention to Le pape François laisse entendre que l’attachement au rite tridentin constitue un produit du nihilisme. This is a fascinating article from the French Catholic periodical La Croix by the theologian … Continue reading →

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Validity of a Church’s Orders

Posted on Friday, 21 January, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

There has been a recent scuffle on the internet about the validity of Orders in the Anglican Catholic Church. The person concerned is a priest of one of the American continuing Anglican Churches and seems to be drifting towards the … Continue reading →

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The Bergoglian Blitzkrieg

Posted on Wednesday, 29 December, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

The more I read about the present rififi between the Pope and the traditionalists, the more I am taken back to that story from 1973 about a monastery in a remote place on Ireland’s Atlantic coast on which I wrote … Continue reading →

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More on the Late Archbishop Hepworth

Posted on Wednesday, 22 December, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I found the following text on Facebook in a group aligned with the Ordinariate. I reproduce it without any comment or opinion from myself: * * * Mgr John Broadhurst has sent this to the Portal. We post it here … Continue reading →

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And on it goes…

Posted on Saturday, 18 December, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

There is a new article in Rorate Caeli about Pope Francis’ determination to force the traditionalist institutes to conform to the new liturgy or face canonical sanctions forcing them to close. Maybe I should take a nihilistic attitude and say … Continue reading →

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