Tag Archives: Romanticism

Medieval Dystopia?

Posted on Saturday, 27 August, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

We are being bombarded by the media about the “climate emergency” and the consequences of Putin invading Ukraine and of the availability of affordable energy in the form of natural gas. We howl in the agony of worry and anxiety … Continue reading →

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Northern Brittany

Posted on Thursday, 7 April, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I haven’t done very much on this blog for a long time, since I became preoccupied with the situation in the Ukraine. It is still a worry for us all, out of empathy in people driven out of their homes … Continue reading →

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Is Putin a Romantic?

Posted on Sunday, 13 March, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I found it quite difficult to recollect myself for Mass this morning as a thought kept stabbing into my mind – the similarity between Aleksandr Dugin’s ideas, representing Russian and European New-Right traditionalism and Romanticism, at least on the surface. … Continue reading →

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Pushkin, not Putin

Posted on Saturday, 12 March, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I try to understand the present crisis in philosophical terms. I am alarmed about Russia and its culture being “cancelled” and demonised. Like most people in the part of the world where I live, I believe that Putin is wrong … Continue reading →

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From Despair to Light

Posted on Thursday, 27 January, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I read something yesterday which turned over in my mind, but at the same time I felt quite revolted about it. It was someone’s opinion about his refusal of all notion of God or meaning to life. He was not … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year 2022

Posted on Thursday, 6 January, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I would like to wish all my readers a happy New Year 2022 with my prayers that this world might become a better place for us all. After some thought, I have adopted a new name for my YouTube channel: … Continue reading →

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The Lost Chord

Posted on Tuesday, 30 November, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

In the early 1990’s a friend in London introduced me to a periodical and a series of cassette tapes intended to reproduce the style of the BBC Home Service of before World War II. I wrote about this stuff long … 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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Spiritual Death and Life

Posted on Thursday, 30 September, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I am constantly coming across texts that tell us that belief in God (adherence to a religion?) is decreasing in France and other European countries. Americans refer to such people as nones, those who would tick the box in a … Continue reading →

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Free Sacramental Christianity

Posted on Monday, 13 September, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I spent a moment today listening to Damian Thompson being interviewed on the subject of Pope Francis’ ideas of synodality, the same talk-shop and hot air as in most Churches. Who, apart from professional bureaucrats, would have the least interest … Continue reading →

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