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A surprisingly even-handed account of the Latin Mass movement in the Catholic Church. I was so gratified I took out a (trial) subscription to the New Yorker.

Happy Easter to all my readers! I am humbled by and grateful for your taking in my scribblings and rants.

Some years ago, Good Friday, I was seated in a pew at my beloved Anglo-Catholic parish in Manhattan. The Mass of the Pre-Sanctified was being celebrated. For those not in the know, it is a liturgy long ago removed from the Catholic Missal, having been abolished in the reforms of 1955. It is, however, stillContinue reading “Confessions of a Catholic Convert.”

The Dems don’t want him at all. Earlier this week I wrote about Robert F. Kennedy tossing his hat into the ring for the race to presidency in ’24. I suggested he might be a welcome lifeboat for Democrat party leaders hoping to find an alternative to bumbling Joe Biden. It turns out RFK, Jr.Continue reading “Robert F Kennedy, Jr., update.”

The surrender proceeds apace. From the Catholic Herald: ‘One of the foremost colleges [Magdalene] at the University of Oxford cancelled its annual St George’s Day celebration for 2023 – and will celebrate the end of Eid instead . . . ‘The event customarily featured a banquet in which all academics, staff, dons, and students wereContinue reading “God for Harry, England, and Mohammed!”

A little progress. Sitting up front, attending the skeletal remains of the Mass of the Pre-Sanctified in my local parish, I was encouraged to note at least eight out of ten communicants were receiving on the tongue and a substantial number were even kneeling.

(From here.) But what about . . . Those Swedish archeologists must be mistaken. After all, who are you going to believe: a team of experts, including a member of the U.S. Armed Forces Medical Examiner System’s Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFMES-AFDIL), as well a forensic geneticist and others, who after carefully and scientificallyContinue reading “How could they tell?”

From Crux. After season of division, Pope calls clergy to spurn ‘disunity’ and ‘polarization’ The “enemy,” Francis said, referring to the devil, “never comes out into the open, loves gossip and insinuation, foments parties and cliques, fuels nostalgia for times past, distrust, pessimism, and fear”  (Emphasis added). Tu quoque, Holiness?

From the Epoch Times. Another Democrat liberal with the same tired ideas and rhetoric, but bearing a once-famous name. Is the Kennedy mystic still extant? Does Robert F. Jr. possess the same winning appeal his glamorous predecessors had? His father was assassinated 55 years ago and the last and least Kennedy, Teddy, died in officeContinue reading “Look for the Dems to drop Biden in a trice should this fellow gain any traction.”