THE TAOS TATLER.

Infanticide, or negligent homicide,if you prefer.

From the Epoch Times;

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday signed into law a package of abortion-related bills, some of which immunize women and doctors from criminal and civil liability for what critics have called infanticide.

And further down:

A lawyer from the American Center for Law and Justice has said the inclusion of ‘perinatal death,’ which extends to 28 days after birth, will mean the law immunizes women and doctors from liability if an infant isn’t given medical care after being born alive during a failed abortion so long as the doctor notes that it was ‘due to’ causes “that occurred in utero.’

In other words, if the baby suffers from a life-threatening defect incurred in the womb, it’s okay to ignore it for 28 days after birth and hope the kid dies from it. If not, well, something will have to be done about it. How long will it be til that “something” is euthanasia, surely on or near the top of the left’s agenda to be legalized? Not only will it make it possible to dispose of unwanted babies, but also unwanted adults, particularly the elderly. After that, it’s open season on those deemed unwanted. Your Tatler has a vague memory of something like that occuring in central Europe 80 or so years ago.

Putin is getting desperate.

A brutal 18th century practice returns, impressment.

h/t GWR.

Fasten your seatbelt.

53 years ago Fr Josef Ratzinger (the future Pope Benedict) gave a series of speeches in which he spoke of the future of the Holy Catholic Church. He made it clear though he would not–could not– make hard predictions what was to come, quoting Augustine: “Whoever believes that the church is not only determined by the abyss that is man, but reaches down into the greater, infinite abyss that is God, will be the first to hesitate with his predictions.” He did intimate however there could be major changes ahead.

We do not know whether or not Ratzinger had the German Church in mind when making those speeches so many years ago, but he may have had a notion what was to come much later, taking the form of the recent actions by Germany’s cardinals, bishops and laymen’s ruthless campaign, via their so-called Synodal Path, Their rejection of Church teachings on sexuality, women’s ordination and, perhaps the most radical, the rejection of episcopal authority (and who knows what else) are nothing short of jaw-dropping.

Are we to interpret those extraordinary destructive acts of the German Catholic Church (with Belgium following suit) a foreshadowing of the end of the entire Catholic Church? Not if we believe our Lord’s promise to Peter. What it does mean is Ratzinger may have called it correctly so many years ago when suggesting the day may come when Holy Church will have to remake herself.

From the crisis of today the Church of tomorrow will emerge — a Church that has lost much. She will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning. She will no longer be able to inhabit many of the edifices she built in prosperity. As the number of her adherents diminishes, so it will lose many of her social privileges. In contrast to an earlier age, it will be seen much more as a voluntary society, entered only by free decision. As a small society, it will make much bigger demands on the initiative of her individual members. Undoubtedly it will discover new forms of ministry and will ordain to the priesthood approved Christians who pursue some profession. In many smaller congregations or in self-contained social groups, pastoral care will normally be provided in this fashion. Along-side this, the full-time ministry of the priesthood will be indispensable as formerly. But in all of the changes at which one might guess, the Church will find her essence afresh and with full conviction in that which was always at her center: faith in the triune God, in Jesus Christ, the Son of God made man, in the presence of the Spirit until the end of the world. In faith and prayer she will again recognize the sacraments as the worship of God and not as a subject for liturgical scholarship.

As for the hedonistic breakaways from the Catholic Church, some may survive, most just barely, and the rest meeting the fate of those in this long, long list of protestant denominations. Eventually Holy Church will grow ever stronger.

h/t LCH and WJT.

The Sino-Bullies are at it again.

From the Catholic News Agency:

Cardinal Joseph Zen and five others stood trial in Hong Kong on Monday for failing to properly register a fund to provide legal aid to pro-democracy protesters. 

The 90-year-old cardinal and retired bishop of Hong Kong arrived at the court in West Kowloon on Sept. 26 using a cane to walk. He was arrested in May along with other democracy activists under Hong Kong’s strict national security law.

In addition to Zen, who has been free on bail since early May, several others have been charged for failing to apply for local society registration for the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund between 2019 and 2021. 

True, the Cardinal is free on bail and even if officials order a guilty verdict, he will not have to serve time, but these actions against him are nothing more than bullying harassment by the Chinese government of an old man trying to save the last shreds of democracy in a land that once enjoyed full freedoms.

Meanwhile, Pope Francis, the Biden in the Vatican, seems far more concerned with getting a renewal of an agreement with the Chinese government concerning the appointment of bishops or somesuch, an agreement that will prove as binding as the one the British signed with the Chinese government guaranteeing the preservation of democracy in Hong Kong 25 years ago.

Probably the real reason the Pope’s lack of concern for his cardinal in Hong Kong is personal.

Zen has been one of the most outspoken critics of the Vatican’s agreement with China since it was first signed in 2018, calling it,’an incredible betrayal.’

Weak men don’t like strong men who disagree with them. So far the only Vatican response was issued after Cardinal Zen’s arrest, nothing since. To the pontiff’s credit however it contains a blistering threat.

The Holy See has learned with concern the news of the arrest of Cardinal Zen and is following the development of the situation with extreme attention.’

Boy, that’ll scare ’em.

h/t GWR.

Italy’s soon-to-be Prime Minister Georgia Meloni is already creating quite a stir among the usual suspects in American media. She’s been saying astonishing things on forbidden subjects, such as:

Why is the family an enemy? Why is the family so frightening? There is a single answer to all these questions. Because it defines us. Because it is our identity. Because everything that defines us is now an enemy for those who would like us to no longer have an identity and to simply be perfect consumer slaves.

And this:

And so they attack national identity, they attack religious identity, they attack gender identity, they attack family identity. I can’t define myself as: Italian, Christian, woman, mother. No. I must be citizen x, gender x, parent 1, parent 2. I must be a number. Because when I am only a number, when I no longer have an identity or roots, then I will be the perfect slave at the mercy of financial speculators. The perfect consumer…[But] we will defend it.

Zounds! Mocking key agenda of the left. Meloni has already received Ted Cruz’s attention, who has called her “spectacular.” However, what really caused Bickerstaff to sit bolt upright was her quoting in the close of a speech G. K. Chesterton. Imagine that, Chesterton.

Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer.’ That time has arrived. We are ready.

From Heretics.

Bickerstaff is in love. Italy will soon be in good hands.

h/t GWR and WT.

Behold one of the most repulsive men on Earth.

Roger Waters, of the pop group Pink Floyd, has canceled two performances in Poland, miffed over Poles’s furious objections to recent statements by him expressing strong support for Russia’s war in Ukraine. It’s hardly surprising they might take issue with him over it

Waters enjoys having one of the sleaziest reputations in celebritydom, screwing over, lying, cheating and generally behaving horribly to all and sundry (including a close friend of your Tatler’s). Rarely does one find someone who so consistently, when presented with a choice of actions, chooses the worst one.

It is no surprise then Waters would actually defend Russia’s war in Ukraine, even though it has been close to universally condemned by people of all political stripes.

Dreadful man: for a more thorough account of this cretin’s behavior, go here. Or just visit the New York Post’s Page Six. He’s quite the regular there.

Climate change hogwash from a former bastion of science.

From Campus Reform:

Adjunct Senior Scientist at Columbia University, Dr. Anders Levermann, published a research paper claiming climate change is creating hate speech.

In the academic article for Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Levermann alleged that “hate speech [increases] across climate zones, income groups and belief systems for temperatures too hot or too cold.”

Across the USA, the authors found low levels of hate tweets in a ‘feel-good window’ of 12-21°C (54-70 °F); the minimum of hate tweets is reached for temperatures between 15 and 18°C (59-65°F),” a summary of the research at Science Daily sates.

There’s plenty more of this slop at the link for those interested, but if you’re looking for something even slightly resembling a causal connection between temperature and angry tweets, don’t bother. You won’t find it, thus making this latest heap of tommyrot no different from the rest of the so-called evidence alleging bad things owing to climate change. It is conjecture, nothing else.

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The building you see above, Columbia’s  Pupin Hall, once upon a time was more than just a desirable dormitory on the campus. In 1939, five stories beneath that building, some of the most brilliant scientists the world has ever known, including Enrico Ferm, assembled to work on the devilishly thorny project developing a self-sustaining neutron chain reaction. That was science at Columbia then. Now it’s peevish tweets and global warming.

The UK’s New York Post.

Sensational? Sure. Ad hominem attacks? You bet. Yellow journalism? Without a doubt, but a damn sight preferable to red journalism and a lot more entertaining.

Apparently, one single word fans the flames of a slew of -isms.

In a major blow against the putative sins of colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, and all the other “isms” of the academic left (if you’ll excuse the redundancy), the University of Oxford’s Faculty of Oriental Studies has changed its name to the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

Oriental, according to the Oxford Dictionary–where else to look it up?–means “connected with or typical of the eastern part of the world, especially China and Japan, and the people who live there.” According to the Hindu Times story however, quoting someone, the word “stank of colonialism.” Oxford’s decision was thus made

[‘A]mid concerns that the previous name could be derogatory to racial or ethnic minorities.’

Scholars of the faculty which was founded in the 19th century felt that the word ‘Oriental’ in the name had echoes of British colonialism, the report added, saying that the change comes after a two-year rigorous consultation process with staff and students. (Italics added).

(They seem to have an awful lot of time to kill at Oxford.)

Your Tatler remembers years ago hearing much whinging over the alleged racist implications of that seemingly innocent word Oriental, but was never able to glean the reasons. Like the above, the complaints seem to originate from ivory tower Caucasians, who always seem be first decreeing what is and what is not racist. We wonder when Occidental, Boreal and Austral join poor Oriental in the liberal Index librorum prohibitorum.

Bickerstaff, unmistakenly Caucasian, is hiwever not alone dismissing the silliness over the suspect word. Consider the views of this Oriental, in the LA Times, no less.

h/t GWR.