Author Archives: Anthony Chase Fountain

This blog doesn’t usually cover the goings on in the Church of England, but this item proved irresistible. From the Times The Right Rev Jonathan Baker, who appeared at the event wearing a dressing gown, described it as a ‘terrible racket’ and told the singers and audience to leave. At first, this struck your Tatler,Continue reading “C of E Bishop inadvertently reveals he is a music lover”

R.I.P. 1928-2025 The late Tom Lehrer figured largely in our family when I was growing up. We had all his records and memorized a good many of his songs. One of Lehrer’s most notorious songs was his infamous Vatican Rag. Many people were deeply offended by it, but not I. Of course, when first hearingContinue reading “Tom Lehrer”

Rod Dreher in the Free Press: On a cool, wet June morning on the Left Bank of the River Seine, cheerful throngs of young adults are padding along the streets with packs on their backs. They are converging on Saint-Sulpice, the bulky 17th-century stone church that dominates the Saint-Germain neighborhood of Paris. From the giddiness ofContinue reading “More news about the Latin Mass”

Interesting, hopeful news regarding Usus Antiquior, the Latin Mass, as reported in The Catholic Thing. They have posted a video featuring veteran EWTN reporter Raymond Arroyo, who is joined by canon lawyer Father Gerald Murray and TCT Editor-in-Chief Robert Royal to unpack Pope Leo’s surprising decision to grant a rare exemption to the ban onContinue reading “Extraordinary news about the Extraordinary form”

Your Tatler turns a ripe (overripe?) three score and ten soon, and as is common among doddery old men, I have been thinking back to the major events occurring in my life. One that stands out lately is the Watergate scandal, which brought down Richard Nixon’s presidency 51 years ago. Watergate is brought to mindContinue reading “High treason and piracy in DC”

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A figure from New York City’s past, Curtis Sliwa, is running for mayor and was considered an also-ran until now. NY Post columnist Charles Gasparino provides the details but the upshot is, with the other candidates looking so dismal, Sliwa stands out by comparison and, with a 22% approval rate in a recent poll, standsContinue reading “An unlikely candidate for mayor in NYC emerges”

ABC News reports Muslims are contributing to socialist Zohran Mamdani’s New York mayoral campaign in far greater amounts than expected, but for obvious reasons. All well and good, we should all contribute to our preferred candidates with our time, our money (if possible), and our votes. Democracy in action, etc. Mamdanì is now the leading candidate forContinue reading “The money is rolling into Mamdani’s campaign coffers, from an unexpected source.”

In an earlier post, this  blogger wrote of the ordeal suffered by two teenagers, who were expelled from their Catholic high school, because its administrators mistakenly believed they had worn blackface four years earlier. Their excessive punishment owed to liberalism run amok in the Church over the past 50-plus years, doing untold damage to traditionalContinue reading “’70s Catholicism on the way out”