Tag Archives: War and Peace

Christian publishing during the Occupation

Posted on Thursday, 7 March, 2019 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

After my last posting, one of my faithful commenters (David Llewellyn Dodds) jogged my mind, and I mentioned in my comment replying to his I am presently reading Alan Jacobs, The Year of Our Lord 1943. Christian Humanism in an … Continue reading →

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If only….

Posted on Monday, 11 February, 2019 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I’m sure most of you know the classic film by Charlie Chaplin made in 1940. It is a caricature of the Hitler regime and there is the mistaken identity between the World War I veteran and Jewish barber and Adenoid … Continue reading →

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Fascism and Nobility of Spirit

Posted on Monday, 11 February, 2019 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

The following is a short article by Rob Riemen. After having nearly finished his second book To Fight Against This Age, I looked him up using Google, found his e-mail address and wrote to him asking him if he would … Continue reading →

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Dead Rats

Posted on Sunday, 10 February, 2019 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have just received a new book I ordered, Rob Riemen, To Fight Against This Age, and began to read it in bed with the accompaniment of some music playing quietly on a little portable speaker under my pillow. The … Continue reading →

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The Possessed

Posted on Tuesday, 11 December, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Not having written anything political since the third of this month, I have to say that the last couple of days have shaken me to the core. Two heads of state, for totally different reasons, are at the point of … Continue reading →

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England on the Psychiatrist’s Couch

Posted on Friday, 16 November, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have come across this intuitive article in the Guardian – The paranoid fantasy behind Brexit. Ironically, as I write this little posting, I am listening to a CD I have just bought of the choir of York Minister in … 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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Schlechtes Wetter

Posted on Wednesday, 6 June, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

On this day commemorating the seventy-fourth anniversary of Operation Overlord, commonly known as D-Day, we have just about the same weather, perhaps a little less wind. Europe is presently plagued with unstable and stormy weather due to a kind of “witch’s … Continue reading →

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Darkest Hour

Posted on Saturday, 27 January, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Sophie and I went to the cinema today to watch Darkest Hour, the film made last year about Winston Churchill in the spring of 1940 when all the odds were against England. Here is a trailer from YouTube: What this … Continue reading →

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The modern western secular world is itself a Christian creation.

Posted on Saturday, 11 November, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It often happens in these gloomy November days that I become more reflective about some of the fundamentals of our existence. Today is the feast of St Martin and Remembrance Day, celebrating the end of World War I in 1918. … Continue reading →

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