THE TAOS TATLER.

Prelates speak with forked tongues.

From Pilar.

Pope Francis has encouraged French bishops to show special care for Catholics “disoriented” by his decision to severely restrict the celebration of Traditional Latin Masses.

‘Pope Francis … invites you to the greatest solicitude and paternity for those people ⁠— especially young people, priests, and laity ⁠— who are disoriented by the motu proprio Traditionis custodes, which you will be working to implement,’ said the message released Nov. 3 and signed by Cardinal Parolin. ‘They are often wounded sheep who need to be accompanied, listened to, and given time.’

“Given time?” Time for what? Time, after certain “encouragements,” to come round to the point of view the mass going back to the beginnings of the Holy Catholic Church and obtaining its present form 1500 years ago, is not valid–even though it is?

“Wounds” of pious observant Catholics of the Church’s eldest daughter, who insist on the celebration of the Latin mass despite condemnation, ridicule and severe restrictions coming from the Pontiff himself?

More from Francis’s consigliere, Cardinal Pietro Parolin.

‘More than ever you are called to address the wounds of the people of God. The victims of these abuses, in the first place, but also all the scandalized, disappointed, and tested people, in particular your priests whose beautiful ministry is dishonored and made even more difficult, and who need your closeness more than ever,’ he wrote.

May God have mercy on these hypocrites. May God have mercy on His Holy Church.

With thanks to GWR.

 De profundis clamavi ad te, Domine;
Domine, exaudi vocem meam. (No problem there.)

The header is same as that used by a reader in an email sent to your Tatler, in which he brought the item below to his attention. Unable to improve upon it, your Tatler chose to reuse it.

His Eminence Cardinal Dolan discussing the state of Christ’s Church with heavyweight New York Post columnist Cindy Adams.

“Religion is going down. St. Patrick’s used to be jammed every service. Spectacular. Now it’s not always full. Less crowded because once it was the center of New York tourism. I don’t know where this world is going.”

Those sorrowful words were uttered to Ms Adams as the Cardinal was engaged in the annual ritual seen below.

With thanks to GWR.

Dance of (political) death?

Bickerstaff is puzzled. Michigan Governor Whitmer is in serious danger being tossed out on her ear by the voters next Tuesday, this despite having led in the polls for many months. We thus can empathize her feelings of desperation and desperate times call for desperate measures. Still, what possibly could be the message the addled woman is trying to convey in the terpsichorean mysteries above?

But this proved just too irresistable.

Didn’t this guy used to be taken seriously once?

Appearing on MSNBC (where else?), he said:

A historian 50 years from now, if historians are allowed to write in this country and if there are still free publishing houses and a free press, which I’m not certain of, but if that is true, a historian will say, what was at stake tonight and this week was the fact whether we will be a democracy in the future, whether our children will be arrested and conceivably killed.

Further proof the man has lost it:

1868, Lincoln didn’t say, biggest issue is land grant colleges, although he felt strongly, he said the country can’t survive half-slave or half-free.

Your Tatler has the vague notion President Lincoln was three years dead in 1868 and not saying much of anything, but then again, he isn’t a “Presidential Historian.”

A posting yesterday expressed in no uncertain terms Bickerstaff’s annoyance with Catholic leadership expending time and energy to break bread (as it were) with Muslims. Wasted effort, Bickerstaff wrote, as Catholicism and Islam are so different from one another it’s impossible for the two faiths to engage in ecumenism, regardless what tiresome Catholic prelates from the ’60s and ’70s might insist.

HOWEVER (and here’s where Bickerstaff serves himself a small, but tasty dish of corvus corax): a piece in PJ Media reminded this writer that though the Catholic and Muslim religions are vastly different from one another, it does not mean there are not moral matters over which we may march in lockstep agreement.

In its unique prose, PJ Media reports thus:

While the Democrats were attacking white Christians for believing women are women and men are not, they never thought the Muslim community might have a say in all this. They do.

We are less than a week before the midterms, and the Democrats are in panic mode. They didn’t learn from Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s victory last November — don’t mess with people’s kids. And they didn’t see themselves possibly losing Michigan.

And then there’s this:

No doubt there are many other topical matters where Catholics and Muslims can, and should, embrace. We’re on the same side, after all.

The people responsible for this want amnesty now pic.twitter.com/JYbYFpCFu0

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 2, 2022

We must not let them get away with it.

Bickerstaff posted earlier on his and millions of other people’s outrage over the heavy-handed, and sadistic manner in which the Biden Administration and its auxiliary hacks handled the Coronavirus lockdowns. Recently, The Atlantic, once a venerated and respected journal, now degenerated into a cheesy propaganda sheet of the left, published a piece urging Americans of all political stripes to forgive and forget the outrages foisted upon them by the bureaucratic Apollyon and its assistants.

John Nolte, writing for Breibart, has some thoughts on the Atlantic piece. He has distilled it to the following.

We didn’t know then what we know now. When we closed your schools, masked your kids, fired you, fined you, LOL’d at your death, bankrupted your small business, arrested your preacher, killed your Grandma by pouring infection into her nursing home, and then made sure she died alone; we honestly believed we were doing the right thing!

Nolte then goes on to explain the Atlantic’s real motive in publishing this offensive tripe.

Democrats are about to get wiped out in large part by suburban mothers in blue states and cities where the COVID tyranny and human rights abuses were the worst. The Atlantic’s request for an amnesty was a direct, election-eve appeal to these suburban voters to forgive, forget, and vote Democrat. It doesn’t get any more cynical or dishonest than that, but that’s what the Atlantic was aiming for.

Without apologizing or even admitting they did anything wrong, without promising never to do it again, without any contrition or remorse or consequences, these monsters are requesting amnesty.

More proof arrogance breeds stupidity like rats breed plague.

We should actually thank the Atlantic for publishing this horrendous piece, Nolte writes, because it has brought the issue to the fore again, just before Election Day and reminding voters what these terrible people put us through. It goes without saying Nolte’s piece is a must read, all of it.

Your Tatler, in his earlier piece, included a heartbreaking video of a very young child being forced to put a mask on, bringing him to tears. If you can bear it, watch the video above, which if anything is even more heartbreaking–and do remember the responsible people and party on Election Day.

This should stir things up.

The race for governor in New Mexico, mostly ignored outside the state (as so much is concerning New Mexico), took a dramatic turn two days ago when Donald Trump unexpectedly endorsed Mark Ronchetti, who is running against incumbent Michelle Lujan Grisham, whose only qualifications seem to be she’s a Democrat and the scion of a political dynasty.

Despite her undistinguished record, with only the occasional two-bit scandal to add a little fun to the campaign, Lujan Grisham has been regarded more or less as a shoe-in. So likely has her re-election been considered, Democrat party leaders recently decided that trotting out President Biden in Albuquerque today to sputter some mangled some words in her favor, could do little or no harm to the campaign.

Donald Trump’s getting involved changes everything. Paul Ronchetti, an able candidate, nonetheless made a foolish error early on when deciding to keep the former president at “arms length” from his campaign. He must have believed mainstream media’s constant iterations a Trump endorsement is a sea anchor that drags campaigns under. Evidence lately has proved the fallacy of that belief.

Ronchetti has issues to run on. Though most people in this country seem unaware of it, New Mexico’s border, like those of Texas and Arizona, is also wide open, with illegals and fentanyl pouring into our state daily. Crime is also on the rise here, just like other states. Lujan Grisham has not distinguished herself in these matters and seems ethically confused at times.

Trump’s endorsement might just encourage still uncommitted voters to come down for Ronchetti, who has been campaigning vigorously and well. Also helping will be Republican heavyweights, Governors Youngkin, DeSantis and Ducey, of Virginia, Florida and Arizona respectively, all of whom will be coming here to campaign for Ronchetti.

It’s been said the Catholic Church in Ireland is in a particularly dreadful state. Here is vital evidence of that.

Laura Perrins in the Catholic Herald (UK).

What is more important, appeasing the atheist Catholic-haters on twitter or saving souls? It seems that for the Bishop of Kerry, Ray Browne, it is the appeasing of atheists. The Bishop has abandoned his priest Fr Sean Sheehy who last weekend in St Mary’s Church in Listowel Co. Kerry, Ireland had the temerity to give a homily warning about sinful behaviour. 

Fr Sean Sheehy condemned such sinful acts as abortion and sexual acts outside marriage, both same sex and promiscuity, as well as transgenderism. Fr Sheehy said, “What is so sad today is you rarely hear about sin, but it’s rampant. And we see it, for example, in the legislation of our government. We see it in the promotion of abortion. We see it in this lunatic approach of transgenderism. 

It’s easy to guess what happened next.

The homily prompted walk-outs at the church and was posted to twitter so the usual pile-on began . . . Mainstream media gave its own incorrect version of events, which was that the priest was condemning homosexual and transgender people, as people . . .  In fact, what Father Sheehy condemned is sin itself.

Well then, Father’s bishop, the Most Reverend (as it were) Ray Browne, after becoming aware of the ruckus, was terribly unhappy indeed and posted the following.

“I am aware of the deep upset and hurt caused by the contents of the homilies in question delivered over the weekend. I apologize to all who were offended.  The views expressed do not represent the Christian position. The homily at a regular weekend parish Mass is not appropriate for such issues to be spoken of in such terms. (Emphasis added.)

One wonders, where should sinful behavior be discussed then? A church supper? The annual outing? The Christmas pageant? The blessing of the animals?

Ah, of course! How silly of Bickerstaff not to to grasp it immediately: in these times, the proper venue for discussing sinful behavior would be the church school, the younger the charges, the better. No doubt the good bishop will attend to it, now that he’s hung his errant priest out to dry.

With thanks to WJT.

Michael Fitzgerald of Liverpool has just received the red hat. Judging by a brief email interview in Catholic.com, we shouldn’t expect much original thinking from him, not by 21st Century standards, anyway. His bailiwick is, essentially, the rubric of “a need for Islamic ecumenism.”

Bickerstaff prays he may be forgiven for asking a simple question here: Why? Islam has been a sworn enemy of Christianity since Muhammed walked on this earth. To suggest otherwise with boilerplate like “we should prudently engage in dialogue with them and work together for moral values and justice and peace” accomplishes nothing. The two institutions’s morals–or “values” as we must call them these days–are poles apart and that cannot be changed without one of the two being eradicated. To believe differently is naive at best.

Yet naivité is exactly what the Cardinal displays when answering the question: “what should every Catholic know about Islam?”

His answer?

That Muslims believe in one God, and since there is only one God, they believe in the same God as us. They have a high idea of this God which excludes incarnation, so they do not believe that Jesus is the Son of God. This is the main difference between us.

Interesting default logic there. This writer suspects there are more than a few Christians and Jews who would not only disagree with that syllogism, but be deeply offended by it, with good cause.

The Cardinal goes on to give equally silly and illogical answers to other questions, at one point quoting from Paul VI’s Lumen gentium, to no great enlightenment.

Wouldn’t it be lovely if Cardinal Fitzgerald and others, e.g., the Pope, would divert some of their energies from “dialogue” with emirs and concern themselves more with the present deplorable state of Holy Church? Islam is strong and growing. The Catholic Church is neither. Making overtures to Muslims will not improve matters for the Church one whit.