Tag Archives: Roman Catholicism

Ordinariate News

Posted on Wednesday, 12 December, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

There is quite a lot of news on Foolishness to the world and Fr Smuts’ blog about the Ordinariates and the new Deanery in Canada. I have met Fr Wilkinson and corresponded with him a few times, and congratulate him … Continue reading →

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Ebbing of Christianity

Posted on Wednesday, 12 December, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have been reading a number of articles about the ebbing of Christianity, the default position of people born since 1980 as agnostic or atheist and the surge of Islam. The various analyses are interesting and more or less convincing. … Continue reading →

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A New Model of Church?

Posted on Monday, 10 December, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is an interesting article from the Catholic Herald: Catholics today could see the birth of a new model of Church. Mass media seems to have changed everything, especially the Internet, blogs and social networking. Freedom of the press indeed, … Continue reading →

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John XXIII, the Old Catholic Pope?

Posted on Friday, 30 November, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

My attention was drawn to this article on an ultra-traditionalist website. Naturally, the ultra-traditionalists, sedevacantists or whatever, intend to express the idea that Vatican II was set up against the reactionary position of Pius IX and the definitions of Vatican … 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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Le Mieux est l’Ennemi du Bien

Posted on Sunday, 30 September, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This famous French proverb means something like “the perfect is the enemy of the good”. The theme of a smaller and purer Church is essentially one found in the writings of the present Pope from the time before his election. … Continue reading →

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Sodalitium Pianum

Posted on Sunday, 16 September, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I wrote this article in early 2010 in the old English Catholic blog. I have received a few e-mails asking me for the articles I wrote about the Sapinière or Sodalitium Pianum, an organisation set up under the pontificate of … Continue reading →

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Mourad on Irregular Clergy and the Last Traces of Donatism

Posted on Wednesday, 5 September, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It is always a mistake to close comments – for the sake of real pearls of wisdom a few people are able to write. In the ordinariate movement, most of the lay people involved have shown little concern for the … Continue reading →

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Catholicism or Catholic Church?

Posted on Tuesday, 24 July, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

No, this is not a polemical piece in regard to Rome, the ordinariates or anything else. It is simply to draw attention to one of the articles mentioned in a posting on Northern Catholicism I commented on yesterday. The article … Continue reading →

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While waiting for the day…

Posted on Thursday, 19 July, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have written several postings about the Society of St Pius X, and have expressed my disagreement with many of their doctrinal and political positions. I have also deplored, in the light of books and statements from the 1970’s and … Continue reading →

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