Thanks so much! Appreciate it!

@theodramatist.com is there any way to get a look at the parish survey questions without actually doing the survey? I'm helping our rector with the parish response and would love the opportunity to plan...

SENATOR: In your confirmation hearing, you swore to me - swore - you would preserve this nation's willowy gay physiques, so WHY have we seen a dramatic INCREASE in "twinkdeath" since Jan 2025?? I ALMOST suspect you WANT our gay boys to develop dadbods.

RFK JR: t h a T ' s ,, p r E p O s t e R O u S

The Atlantic POLITICS The FBI Director Is MIA

Rapper M.I.A.

Wow I had no idea

RIP Susan Leigh Star you would have loved this

more proof that for so many of these people Christianity is a set of vibes, a pop culture argot, that they put on to achieve a certain goal. it's not the result of any kind of sincere faith

Spring Break, 2005, at the DC Holocaust Museum. I'm reading the memorial plaque to the Bielski brothers. An old man turns to me, points at the plaque, and says "I was there. Those men saved my life." I stammer a response, look at the plaque, but when I turn back to ask him a question, he's gone.

“Darken not my door, sir” why do they all talk like this

Welcome back, 19th century anti-Catholicism

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seems more likely for humans to get eaten by hippos, by the numbers

The very same

Reminded of the old line about St. Mary the Virgin’s 19th century music being like fountains of eau de toilette, just high camp

St. Magnus the Martyr’s Easter Sunday service had the vidi aquam set to Irving Berlin’s “Easter Parade,” which old liturgy queen made that choice???

many people are saying this

Du vin et une baguette pour l'Eucharistie? Bien sûr, Nazareth est dans la Loire.

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Did NOT get my favorite Easter hymn today (Welcome Happy Morning) but I did have a marvelous Easter morning service with my family that makes it acceptable. And the hymns we did get were great!

I think the canons are clear that membership is envisioned as referring to Episcopal or full communion churches only. I am not sure if the 2024 canons have any scope for addressing membership for churches not in communion with TEC - AFAICT the only requirement is to have a baptism registered.

Beyond my knowledge but do Catholic chaplains not do the Presanctified Liturgy?

Somehow I don’t think Hegseth knows about the Mass of the Presanctified!

the Know-Nothings are back, rank anti-catholicism is the order of the day

This is my Scholastic response : yes, because it appears they were validly ordained, but it’s moot because they would be unlikely to offer it to you given their rigorism and exclusion of traditores!

Not entirely unwelcome but ironic given my concerns with Augustinian theories on sin!

I was baptized a month and a half after this candle was first lit.

St. Mesothelioma, Ora pro nobis

All very good questions!

Still reminded of this 3 years later. never got a clear answer for where this particular devotion came from or the justification for it; the priest otherwise had a very robust view of the Real Presence!

I once saw a priest use consecrated wine to clean the stripped altar on Maundy Thursday and my very catholic self nearly had a heart attack; never seen that before or since

We talked Caribbean poets and Derek Walcott's "Ruins of a Great House." Her father's house had a weekly salon for the literati of Guyana in the leadup to independence. I know very little about that literary world but what a marvel to have someone so close to it be able to tell me what it was like.