From Crisis Magazine:

In a perhaps little noticed recent scandal from the University of Notre Dame . . . a professor of the Keough School of Global Affairs has offered and promoted abortion access to Notre Dame students, despite university policy and Indiana law. This includes helping students procure Plan B aborticide pills and referring students to other abortion services. Professor Tamara Kay bragged about her efforts to refer Notre Dame students to abortion resources at an event called “Post-Roe America: Making Intersectional Feminist Sense of Abortion Bans.” 

(Here’s a handy tip. Whenever you come across someone who uses the neologism “intersectionality” in a serious vein, you may safely stop reading. Rest assured, everything that follows you have read before: utterly predictable and arcane leftist cant, seeming as if it were generated by collectivist phrase-generating software.)

But we digress. The author of the piece in Crisis, Thomas Shaffern, asks a perfectly reasonable question concerning the heretical professor above and, sadly, has a perfectly reasonable answer.

Q.

How did we get to the point where the most prominent Catholic university in the United States employs, and probably will not fire, such a person?

A.

The answer seems a simple one. Notre Dame cares more about being just another elite university as opposed to being an elite Catholic university. The administration at Notre Dame is far more concerned with receiving compliments from The New York Times than receiving compliments from Catholic families who sacrificed to send their children there. 

And that about sums it up for all major Catholic institutions of higher learning in this country. The obvious answer to those families desiring a Catholic education for their children is to give a wide berth to those formerly Catholic behemoths and patronize instead the smaller colleges, a splendid example being Wyoming Catholic College (full disclosure: your Tatler is a supporter). That institution and others similar to it haven’t chosen to drop their missions as the biggies have.

So boycott the biggies like Notre Dame, Georgetown, et al. They have been hollowed out and these days, happily, there are superb smaller Catholic colleges that are filling the void.

The leader of the free world.

From Fox News:

President Joe Biden touted that his administration is looking get rid of the “junk fees” that make roomier airline seats more expensive and thus “unfair” to “people of color.”

From the Daily Caller:

EXCLUSIVE: Hungarian Foreign Minister Says Ukraine-Russia War Would Not Have Happened Under Trump

We need to hear more talk like this.

The foreign minister of Hungary, Péter Szijjártó, in part, blamed the current war between Ukraine and Russia on President Joe Biden in an exclusive interview Wednesday with the Daily Caller. He argued that if the 2020 election had played out differently, there would be no war.

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So, you know, what we are definitely sure about is that if your presidential election had played out differently in 2020, this war would not have broken out. As much as I can be sure about things that didn’t happen, I am pretty sure that this would have been the case because we are currently, globally speaking, we are currently lacking leaders. President Trump was a real leader. 

Sadly, what we got in 2020 were three incompetents, incapable of dealing with either foreign or domestic matters: a president entering headlong into advanced senility, a mentally deficient vice-president unable to put even two words together that make sense and last, an alcoholic house speaker engaged in a vigorous horserace with our president to the very same destination as his.

Your Tatler’s money is on the President-Speaker competition ending in a draw.

And will never go back.

New York City subway shove suspect Lamale McRae, 41, has been charged with attempted murder, assault, reckless endangerment, and harassment for shoving a man onto the subway tracks in Brooklyn.

McRae, 41, has a long record of run-ins with law enforcement, including attempted murder when he was only 16 years old. According to a report by the New York Post, McRae served 20 years in prison for the attempted murder.

Your Tatler’s family had a presence in the City for over three-and-half centuries. No longer: sad, but leadership of late has been hellbent on destroying New York and is succeeding quite nicely.

Coal dust still on his face.

A coal miner at shift’s end rushes straight to a Kentucky Wildcats basketball game to be with and watch with his son.

This story is gaining traction and well it should. From Louder with Crowder:

The Kentucky Wildcats hosted their annual “blue-white scrimmage” when a father and son caught the eye of Coach John Calipari. The father, a coal miner, sat there with his face still covered in coal dust while his son looked excited to be at the game and with his dad.

The boy’s mom was there as well.

My amazing husband started his day at 4:45 am that morning and worked all day. Then drove straight to the arena to meet us and enjoy the game with our son! We are truly blessed with such an amazing man, and beyond thankful! We love our coal miner.

They are truly blessed, and it gets even better. The Wildcats’s coach happened to see the photo above and wrote as follows on Twitter.

At the risk of going on and on (aw, the hell with it, we’ll take that risk and besides, it’s our blog), your Tatler’s father (yes, he actually had one!), while not a coal miner (he worked on Wall Street), would rise every morning before dawn, eat a rushed breakfast, then walk briskly to the station to catch the morning train on the increasingly dilapidated and unreliable New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad to Grand Central. Thence the express train to the Financial District, where he would work long and, no doubt, often tedious hours until day’s end, at which he would go through the whole process again in reverse.

Despite being exhausted, after dinner Dad would take a good amount of his time to read to his four boys before retiring to bed and doing the whole thing again the next day.

This is, or was, nothing unusual; it’s merely a tale of a father who loved his children and whose happiest moments were being with them, especially, in our case, reading to us. The man in the photo though is no different, save for immaterial circumstances. He simply loves his son, wants to be with him and obviously will stop at nothing to make that happen.

May God bless fathers everywhere.

With regard to a pro-abortionist on the Vatican payroll . . .

David Warren fires both barrels.

But the truth is more desolating. There is no practical prospect for a recovery of any sort. And while God has worked miracles in the past, and the faithful may actually hope for Christ and His Angels to suddenly rescue us, this cannot be expected. There is, I think, little supplicatory prayer in secret, and what is offered in public has diminished radically.

It is in this light that I tend to be bored by the latest proposals or trends in apologetics, or other evangelical efforts. Where they have any chance of working, God bless them, but evangelizing we must do ourselves, not depend on external missions.

Mariana Mazzucato, pro-abortion economist.

From the Catholic News Agency.

Pope Francis appoints pro-abortion economist to Pontifical Academy for Life.

One of the newest members of the Pontifical Academy for Life appointed by Pope Francis is an outspoken advocate of abortion rights, having recently shared her opposition to the overturning of Roe v. Wade on Twitter.

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In his 2020 book “Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future,” Pope Francis described Mazzucato’s work as “thinking that is not ideological, which moves beyond the polarization of free market capitalism and state socialism, and which has at its heart a concern that all of humanity have access to land, lodging, and labor.”

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition.

It doesn’t get any clearer than that; there’s no wiggle room. So why does the grossly offensive opinion of an abortion enthusiast make her worthy in the Pope’s eyes of appointment to the Pontifical Academy for Life, who holds views so hideously contrary to the very name the institution itself?

One can only suppose Francis finds this woman’s views on matters such as land redistribution so eminently attractive he is willing to overlook the teensy-weensy matter of her hearty endorsement of the murdering of babies in and out of the womb.

God save our deeply troubled Holy Catholic Church. We certainly cannot look to the pontiff, who obviously has far more important things on his mind.

And boy is it a final one!

From National Review:

Stacey Abrams, the Democratic nominee for governor in Georgia, floated abortion as a solution to voters’ concerns about inflation on Wednesday, explaining to Morning Joe viewers that ‘having children is why you’re worried about your price for gas, it’s why you’re concerned about how much food costs.’

‘You can’t divorce being forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy from the economic realities of having a child,’ countered Abrams, who argued that ‘we don’t have the luxury of reducing it, or separating them out.’

Ms Abrams also announced the development of a sophisticated new app that will assist women in determining whether or not to bear a child. It will be loaded with such esoteric variables as future travel plans, upcoming desirable TV series, personal zodialogical and numerological readings and, of course, upcoming climate changes and political predictions.

“We will leave no stone unturned helping pregnant women determine whether to keep it or kill it,” Ms Abrams said proudly.

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Murdered by the Russians: his crime? Refusing to conduct for them after their invasion of Ukraine.

Your Tatler, who loves music with an unequaled passion, including Russian music, sees no reason listening anymore to performances by Russian Tartar artists, live or recorded, until all that nation’s artists renounce the unspeakable crimes committed against the Ukrainian people. This boycott must also include all ballet performances as well, even the New York City Ballet’s annual Christmas Nutcracker performances at the City Center. Everything, until Putin repents or is removed from office.

Something? Anything?

From Just the News.

[Sen. Charles””] Grassley said the scheme “to compensate the Bidens was supposed to consist of an unsecured $5 million loan, intended to be forgivable, from CEFC in 2017.” The senator said his office has information that a few months before the $5 million was paid “Hunter Biden yelled at CEFC officials at a meeting for failing to fund the joint venture” and that “James Biden considered calling CEFC officials and threatening to withdraw Biden family support from future deals.”

While it is true Biden was out out of office at the time of this sleazy deal, nevertheless, he was the former Vice President of the United States and seriously contemplating running for president. Did he have no regard for appearances?

Does he at least pay for his ice cream cones?

ADDENDUM: But wait! There’s more!

From the Daily Mail.

EXCLUSIVE: Leaked emails reveal Hunter Biden’s real estate company received a $40MILLION investment from Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina, the billionaire widow of corrupt Moscow mayor, who also paid president’s son $3.5million consulting fee.

The stench grows worse and worse.