Author Archives: Anthony Chase Fountain

To my loyal readers: your host has spent considerable time and sums recently attempting to move the Tatler blog to a carrier calling itself Bluehost. Unfortunately, all attempts understanding the elaborate and arcane features of Bluehost have resulted in failure and frustration. Your Tatler, therefore has decided this modest blog shall remain with the barebones, butContinue reading “Staying put”

Back in 1978, twice-Harvard graduate (College and Business School) John LeBoutillier published a book titled “Harvard Hates America,” in which he encountered, to put it in the author’s own words 40 years later, a sense of inbred superiority where many people — teachers, administrators and students — thought they were smarter and therefore better thanContinue reading “The Pentagon finally sees the light”

From the Vatican News: St. John Henry Newman inscribed in General Roman Calendar St. John Henry Newman inscribed in General Roman Calandar Pope Leo XIV has inscribed St. John Henry Newman, Doctor of the Church, in the General Roman Calendar, with his optional memorial being on October 9, announced the Dicastery of Divine Worship andContinue reading “Good news from Rome concerning John Henry Newman”

Above you see the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection in East 74th Street. Were someone to step into that church during the mass, the first thing he might notice would be real English being spoken, as compared with any Catholic church in the US. Alas, Resurrection is only a catholic church, not a Catholic church.Continue reading “One of the few catholic (though alas, not Catholic) churches in New York”

A priest friend who, like your Tatler, is a convert from the Episcopal Church, was allegedly asked shortly after embracing the full faith if there was anything he missed from his former church. His prompt response: “the mass in English.” If anyone were to ask your Tatler similarly, the equally prompt response would be, “music ofContinue reading “Missing real music”

From NPR  (where else?) Bishop Rob Hirschfeld [image below] was one of several community and faith leaders gathered in Concord, N.H., for a vigil for Renee Macklin Good just days after she was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis. “I’ve asked [clergy] to get their affairs in order to make sure theyContinue reading “The pathetic state of the Episcopal Church today”

The posting above was prompted by this story. House, feds probe to unravel mystery of ‘Squad’ Rep. Ilhan Omar’s skyrocketing wealth: ‘It’s not possible’ The House Oversight Committee is probing “Squad” Rep. Ilhan Omar’s skyrocketing family wealth after a $9 billion Somali social services fraud scandal exploded in her district, The Post has learned. “WeContinue reading “This rings true”

It is a common trend in these times to be reluctant to proclaim one’s Christianity in public and to effect a “we’re all alike” attitude. We are not, the Catechism makes that clear: Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. So why, oh why. did the Vatican recently open a prayer room for Muslims alone? From WNG.org TheContinue reading “Apologizing for being Christian”