Tag Archives: Romanticism

Washing a Quilt

Posted on Tuesday, 20 October, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It is quite amazing how things follow on from each other. Our quilt got pissed on by one of our cats, and the time came today to wash it. Too big for a domestic washing machine, so I had to … Continue reading →

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Christian Romanticism

Posted on Wednesday, 23 September, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

We don’t seem to see an end to the depressing binary dialectic between “cultural Christianity” and conservative Catholicism, Protestantism and Orthodoxy, especially in the American scene. This side of the Atlantic, outside imported American religion, Christianity is decaying like its … Continue reading →

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When the Salt loses its Savour…

Posted on Friday, 11 September, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

These are the words that came into my mind as I read A Brief (Very Brief) History of Practical Liturgics by JV. He published an unfinished, or rather in-concluded, posting. I would probably have felt the same had I written … Continue reading →

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A People without Memory is a People without a Future

Posted on Wednesday, 9 September, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I hated history lessons at school, with a master droning on about events in nineteenth-century English politics that seemed so distant and irrelevant. Why is historical knowledge so vitally important? Simply, historical knowledge is an antidote to ideology and manipulation. … Continue reading →

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Interesting Observations

Posted on Friday, 21 August, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

For some time now, we have been treated by John Bruce of Los Angeles to a long season on the Ordinariates. It would seem to me that he loves doing down anything that is not under the mainstream bureaucracy or … Continue reading →

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You are not machines!

Posted on Tuesday, 7 July, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

So many times, I have listened to this speech by Charlie Chaplin at the end of The Great Dictator, the parody of Hitler he made in 1940. For the first time, in the light of what I wrote yesterday, the … Continue reading →

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Repairing Engines and Inner Peace

Posted on Tuesday, 7 July, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

At last, I have begun to fulfil my intention of January 2013 to read the famous philosophical novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I had obviously understood very little before acquiring the book and beginning to read it. Last … Continue reading →

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Perceptio

Posted on Tuesday, 26 May, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Perceptio is of a rare subtlety in understanding many of the issues that dog us. Churches concerned with political correctness are described in Make of it what you will. I have given a lot of thought to the issue of … Continue reading →

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Prometheus Unbound

Posted on Wednesday, 11 March, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I came across a fairly mind-blowing article this morning. A New Way To Be Human: The Plan Is To Replace Existing Humans With ‘Transhuman’ Hybrids I don’t take this sort of stuff very seriously, any more than the ideas of … Continue reading →

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Pessimism

Posted on Wednesday, 17 December, 2014 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

John Beeler wrote another well-reflected posting a few days ago – Pessimism about Catholic traditionalism is unfounded in my opinion – in response to my A Sobering Article. Whilst John tries to find a way to distinguish ideologically-motivated traditionalists from … Continue reading →

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