Tag Archives: Romanticism

Populism

Posted on Friday, 23 November, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

As events unfold in England, I find my comments columns becoming very symptomatic of the polarisation now occurring all over Europe. Most of us are too parochially-minded to see things clearly, not that I have any pretensions. We are sucked … Continue reading →

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Strangers and Foreigners

Posted on Thursday, 8 November, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It is quite amazing to happen upon Fr Jonathan Munn’s new article “Loyal to a church that has passed away”. In this article is the eternal notion of our being foreigners and strangers in this world that exacts our compliance. … Continue reading →

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Democracy

Posted on Monday, 5 November, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Most of us are familiar with the famous quote of Churchill in a speech to the House of Commons in 1947: Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No … Continue reading →

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Caste, Class and Determinism

Posted on Sunday, 14 October, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I am beginning work on my article for The Blue Flower, Christmas edition, on the theme of nobility of spirit. I have found this theme fascinating in the work of Berdyaev, a Russian Orthodox philosopher influenced by German Idealism, the … Continue reading →

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Continuing Anglicanism in France

Posted on Thursday, 11 October, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

There is an official description of my Chaplaincy of St Mary the Virgin, Hautot Saint Sulpice, France in our Diocesan Website. My brother in the priesthood, Fr Jonathan Munn, asked me to write a posting about my ministry in France. … Continue reading →

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Cosmopolitanism Revisited

Posted on Saturday, 22 September, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This word, like many others ending with “ism”, describes an ideology according to which we all belong to a single “world city”, κοσμοπολίτης in Greek. This idea would transcend the differences that exist between cultures and languages through some form … Continue reading →

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A Cri de Coeur from an English Expatriate in Europe

Posted on Friday, 21 September, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I wrote this short text for a Facegroup group of more than nine thousand English expatriates in France, many of whom are uncertain of their future in the event of a “hard” or “blind” Brexit. There are hundreds of thousands … Continue reading →

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The mask comes away…

Posted on Tuesday, 18 September, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have come across a review of a book on the history of Vatican I (1870) in Vatican I, Pius IX, and the problem of ultramontanism. The article is published in a Roman Catholic site, and criticism from such a … Continue reading →

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Tight or Loose?

Posted on Monday, 17 September, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have reading a number of articles by sociologists and others who have an interesting theory about “tight” against “loose” cultures. The tightest would be strict Muslim countries or the remaining Communist and totalitarian countries. The loosest would be New … Continue reading →

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Be careful about what you ask for!

Posted on Thursday, 13 September, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

The Pope’s Earthly empire is laid to rest – Italian anti-clerical drawing from 1870 It was in 2014 that I wrote in Aristocracy of the Spirit: I had a long conversation with two friends in London a few days ago about … Continue reading →

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