Author Archives: Anthony Chase Fountain

This on the mark birthday card, from the Hallmark division Faithfully Funny, contains an obvious reference, though with no mention of it, to C. S. Lewis’s concept of “gluttony of delicacy,” a tool of the devil, from his classic, The Screwtape Letters. Though Screwtape was published in 1942, “gluttony of delicacy” is still very much withContinue reading “Remembering Screwtape”

Bickerstaff woke up this morning with a solemn hymn tune in his head, one he had not heard or sung in ages. The hymn was a combination of two tunes, St Patrick and Deirdre, but is better known by its first line, I bind unto myself this day (only organists and scholars refer to hymns by theirContinue reading “Saying goodbye to the priceless accessory of a bankrupt institution”

From the NY Post: Jake Tapper admits Democratic cover-up of Biden’s cognitive decline may be ‘worse than Watergate’ *** The cover-up of former President Joe Biden’s mental decline might be a bigger scandal than Watergate, CNN host Jake Tapper acknowledged Monday. “Acknowledged.” Ha! No admission from Tapper that he led the way, not only inContinue reading “Of all the unmitigated gall or, the pot calling the kettle black.”

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To list them all in one post would encourage the reader to click somewhere else, so only a few bight-sized bits at a time. Primo. Ex-homiliae chit-chat: if it cannot be incorporated into the homily, we can live without it. Tace! Secundo. Applause during Mass: few things are more irksome, especially when Father requests it.Continue reading “Post-Missam Novus Ordo gripes, a continuing Sunday series”

Why? (Posted on Facebook, recently)

At a meeting recently with President Trump in the White House, South African President Ramaphosa vehemently denied white South Africans were being persecuted and murdered. After hearing enough, Trump ran a video that clearly showed otherwise. Bickerstaff, despite his increasingly growing number of years, cannot recall a president so utterly lacking in timidity as President Trump.Continue reading “Trump brutally contradicts SA President Ramaphosa with video”

William Goh Seng Chye Archbishop of Singapore Change is likely coming to Vatican policies, including, possibly, the celebration of Usus Antiquior, the Traditional Latin Mass. That is, if Cardinal Chye of Singapore has anything to do with it. In a wide-ranging interview with the Daily Compass, the Cardinal spoke supportively of the new Pope, saying, Continue reading “Policy change coming for Usus Antiquior?”

A FaceBook posting, put up by David Gabler, of a short piece by John Samuel Craig; it is quoted here in its entirety because there isn’t a single wasted word. Regardless of your politics, I’d encourage you to consider this picture: the beautiful, brilliant, daughter of Indian immigrants. A man who grew up without aContinue reading “An American tale with an American pope”

There are unconfirmed reports containing good news regarding Cardinal Sarah, who was on the outs with Pope Francis. Apparently, he has been restored to grace by Pope Leo XIV and has been appointed by Leo, who created the position,  Special Papal Envoy to Sub-Saharan countries. Those countries are far more conservative in their Catholic beliefs and practicesContinue reading “Surprising news from the Vatican”