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, she describes how Kirk’s assassination has been the long-awaited catalyst that has, at last, transformed millions of Americans’s attitudes from resigned complacency into genuine anger, with reaction against the increasingly violent, left-wing activists infecting this nation, and a host of others. The awakened citizenry, in this and other nations, are finally standing up and firmly informing the radical left, we will no longer meekly acquiesce to your thuggery, nor pay the least heed to your sycophants in major media who, like a cancer, have taken over most of it. Already, some of the overpaid newsreaders have been cashiered, or have quit their cushy jobs. These newly unemployed rich are taking it about as well as a toddler having his favorite sucking toy snatched away from him, while simultaneously needing a diaper change.
Mullarkey singles out for criticism perhaps the most useless organization in the Holy Catholic Church, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (the USCCB). You will not find in our Holy Church a more ineffectual bunch of wimps, who go about wringing their hands, speaking platitudes and little else. Lately they are half-apologizing for the increasing terror attacks on the good people they ought to be lionizing, such as the late Charlie Kirk, who, though not a Catholic, vigorously promoted our Catholic morals. Instead, the brave souls of the USCCB, following Kirk’s brutal murder, issued a milquetoast response in which they expressed, again, their abhorence of terrorist violence. Your Graces, just how many observant Catholics would you hazard are comforted by such uninspired, banal words?
Your Tatler’s disappointment was compounded Sunday by the words coming from the pulpit by our new pastor, who up to now has impressed by his cleaning up the considerable liturgical detritus left behind by his predecessor. What did we hear? A statement sounding as if it were dictated to be read by all priests in New Mexico by our yet-to-resign Archbishop of Santa Fe. In it, we heard, of all things, an abhorence of violence, but zero reference to Charlie Kirk’s murder. To be fair, I like our new pastor, but his fear of going out on a limb was a disappointment. Reverend Sir, you are far better than that, and capable of far better, by a wide margin. I pray for you because you and other priests are on the battleground.
THE TAOS TATLER. 