Tag Archives: Romanticism

In the Midst of our Confusion and Anxiety

Posted on Tuesday, 9 December, 2025 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have already introduced a couple of posts with the title of an encyclical that Pius XI had written in German in 1937, a translation of the title being “It is with deep anxiety and growing surprise…” in reaction to … Continue reading →

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The Simple Priest

Posted on Monday, 17 November, 2025 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It is now a very long time since I was a deacon in the Roman Catholic Church, and I was finally away from that situation in late 1997 after my stay at Triors Abbey. I wandered into the sedevacantist vagante … Continue reading →

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The Philosopher King

Posted on Friday, 19 September, 2025 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I am so disenchanted with modern left / right political disputes and even the idea that English and European culture can be saved by reversing the policies of mass immigration, especially of Muslims. I am not going to discuss the … Continue reading →

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Another Christianity, Another Humanity

Posted on Saturday, 1 February, 2025 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have read articles and watched YouTube videos (I do not have a television) about the issues and the floods of executive orders coming from the President’s desk. We have notably the burning issues of illegal immigration, insecurity, “woke” ideology … Continue reading →

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The First Signs of Freedom: William Morris’s Romantic medievalism and the Oxford Movement.

Posted on Saturday, 18 January, 2025 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Dr Timothy Graham is a medical doctor specialising in Gastroenterology at St George’s Hospital in London. He obtained an MPhil in Philosophy in 2011 with a dissertation on the thought of Austin Farrer from Queen’s University Belfast where he had … Continue reading →

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The Art of Selfishness

Posted on Wednesday, 1 January, 2025 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have just finished reading Andrea Wulf’s book on the Jena Idealists and one of the strongest points of origin of the Romantic worldview. As she closed the book after a chapter about the wider influence of the Jena Set … Continue reading →

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Evil and Beauty

Posted on Saturday, 28 December, 2024 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Today is the feast of the Holy Innocents. Following a message from heaven in a dream, Joseph took Mary and the Infant to Egypt to take refuge, in an image of the First Exile of the Israelites to the same … Continue reading →

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Beauty, Truth and Goodness

Posted on Friday, 27 December, 2024 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

A few days ago, I thought it a good idea to create a Substack account Going Substack. I set up the account with the option of not paywalling or using a lot of gimmicks. Last night, this message appeared. We’ve removed … Continue reading →

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Jansenism

Posted on Wednesday, 11 December, 2024 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is a fascinating dialogue from a non-polemical point of view on Jansenism. At the same time, a historical examination of this sectarian movement in French Catholicism is very sobering in the light of contemporary experience. Some aspects of Jansenism, … Continue reading →

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La Mer nous apprend la Modestie

Posted on Thursday, 10 October, 2024 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Something I encounter very frequently in my own thinking and in some others is the way we think and process knowledge, and what seems to represent truth. I am highly concerned by the way most people I encounter have a … Continue reading →

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