Tag Archives: War and Peace

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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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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Till Trump from East to West

Posted on Sunday, 27 October, 2024 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

What goes around comes around. Reading and hearing all the hype about the US Presidential Election, the lovely Easter carol comes into my mind and leaves me with a smile. Till trump from east to west shall wake the dead … Continue reading →

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Woke!

Posted on Wednesday, 28 February, 2024 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have had a very unpleasant experience with the “woke” leviathan these last few days, albeit on a very small scale, a true microcosm of something that is killing thousands, and millions in the past in its various manifestations. It … Continue reading →

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Go Forth and Multiply

Posted on Sunday, 20 November, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I find it quite ironic that we are informed that the world is being suffocated under the weight of eight to ten billion humans in this world. The biggest populations seem to be in China, India and the African continent, … Continue reading →

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For we wrestle not against flesh and blood…

Posted on Sunday, 6 November, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It is some time since I last wrote on this blog. Events in the world have had a profound effect on me, like the two world wars had on those who lived in those soul-destroying days. The horrors of the … 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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Lenten Iconoclasm

Posted on Monday, 28 February, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is a couple of days early, but my little oratory is in Lenten Array for the first time. I modified the altar frontal from the old chapel to fit the smaller altar and to eliminate the wooden frame. The … Continue reading →

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Beauty for Ashes

Posted on Monday, 6 December, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

As I prepared to say Mass today of the Feast of St Nicholas of Myra, three little words came into my mind and filled all my thoughts – Beauty for ashes. They come from Isaiah 61. The Spirit of the … Continue reading →

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