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For your amusement, please note the chart below showing the geographical distribution of  Democrats and Republicans in Taos County, New Mexico. Red represents Republican strongholds, blue represents Democrat strongholds. Your Tatler is asked occasionally why there is so little political commentary in this blog concerning his own environs. The answer is, the audience read it beforeContinue reading “A voice that crieth in the wilderness”

What shall become of the Church of England with her brand new Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally or, as the estimable William Tighe has titled her, L’Archflaminica (the definite article added by your Tatler, with apologies to the good professor)? Things don’t look good. Despite their shared heritage, the Church of England (C of E) andContinue reading “The dismal futures facing the Church of England and the Episcopal Church”

Meet the new Archbishop of Canterbury. Pity the poor Church of England. This is the best, most qualified candidate it could come up with after many, many months of the chair being empty, as her new Archbishop of Canterbury. 

Your Tatler was disappointed at first with the election of Robert Prevost as pope and expressed that disappointment in a none-to-complimentary blog post. In time, however, Leo XIV gave small, but encouraging signs that he might be the reformer pope for whom many Catholics had been praying. Alas, those small signs have proved to be justContinue reading “Climate change supercedes orthodoxy in worship”

President Trump addressed the UN yesterday The hard working diplomats at the United Nations undoubtedly were bracing for the worst while awaiting President Trump’s address yesterday, but they couldn’t possibly have forseen what they heard. Trump was in fine fettle, not in the mood for mincing words. He let them have it and it wasContinue reading “Turtle Bay liquor sales will soar this month”

by Shannon Gallagher Prior It has been [two weeks] since Charlie Kirk was taken from us in such a brutal way. If your heart still feels heavy, let it be. We weren’t made to witness an assassination in real time and then return to “business as usual.” Grief is not weakness. It is proof ofContinue reading “On the murder of Charlie Kirk”

Your Tatler doesn’t tarry much at Facebook these days, but I was alerted to a post by Fr Peter West, an estimable man and an estimable Catholic. The list he compiled, posted below, speaks for itself (res ipsa loquitur) and requires no commentary. None is offered, save for thanks to Fr West. You may find FrContinue reading “One might detect a trend here”

‘Drugs’ found at NY seminary actually priceless relics of Brooklyn’s Saint Raphael NY Post: “Drug-sniffing dogs swarmed St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary last week when cops were alerted to possible illegal narcotics that had spilled out of their special container on the scenic, tree-covered campus,  WABC reported.” It turns out it was a seminarian whoContinue reading “Oops!”

Kids, don’t try this at home without an adult present . . . oh. (A newly commissioned mural at St Patrick’s Cathedral opened to the public yesterday.) h/t GWR

Someone please inform our Catholic leadership. The excellent journalist and artist Maureen Mullarkey, whom all reasonable people should read, has posted on her website Studio Matters, a fine essay about the aftermath of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the likeable and earnest founder of the conservative advocacy group, Turning Point. In prose both clear and lucid,Continue reading “There’s a sea change  coming, here and abroad”