Tag Archives: Roman Catholicism

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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Archbishop John Hepworth RIP

Posted on Saturday, 11 December, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Of your charity, please pray for the soul of Archbishop John Hepworth who passed away on 1st December 2021 from an illness unrelated to the present pandemic. We should not forget that he was ordained a priest in the Roman … Continue reading →

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The Final Blow?

Posted on Wednesday, 3 November, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I am probably coming across as a miserable old curmudgeon, as I mull over the aches and pains of my own life and its meaning. I picked up a Swiss TV interview between several academics from my old alma mater … Continue reading →

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The Sign of Contradiction

Posted on Sunday, 31 October, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I awoke from a dream this morning in which I was approached by some priests I knew in the 1990’s, all dead now. They suggested that my canonical situation in regard to the Roman Catholic Church could be “sorted out” … Continue reading →

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