Ecclesiastical bibs and bobs

• On the two one true churches.
• On venerating the other side’s saints. Arturo in a hard-line mood.
• On a vagante drag queen, ‘nancy vicars’ and Nats. In which I comment as High-church libertarian curmudgeon.
• The SSPX in the news. Comments.
• On monasticism old and new. Paul: These organizations are all but indistinguishable from what were called guilds, sodalities, confraternities, and orders of tertiaries, and have existed from before the Middle Ages right up until the present moment. But I think it’s a real mistake to refer to it as monasticism, and that it’s really only being done because that’s what “hot” right now in terms of spiritual writers.
• The Daughters of the King and the life and death of Elaine Ryan, Dr Schori’s mother, who became Orthodox. I have no idea why the Jeffertses left the RCs.
• RC numbers. These organizations are completely tied to government and big donor funding; and he who pays the bill calls the tune.