[kellynla]

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[MaggieCarta]

I have a Catholic wife, three Catholic children, and eight Catholic grandchildren — which is more than most Catholics have done for you lately.

Ouch!

Thanks for posting this article, kellynla!

[MaggieCarta]

...Would I, candidate Freeman, be likely to embarrass the administration? Replied witness Buckley, under oath: “I should think that the reverse is much more likely.”

I miss WFB, Jr., too.

[Servant of the Cross]

Wonderful article. I think Neal Freeman is Catholic, he just doesn’t know it yet. But now that WFB is praying for it from Heaven, it won’t be much longer.

[Malesherbes]

Beautifully done. If we had never known Bill Buckley, this is all we would have needed to know. Thanks for posting.

[Stosh]

The bit on the FBI files was hilarious - dittoes to reply #3: I appreciate you’re providing it for those of us who did get a kick out of it, even if it didn’t do much for you.

[MaggieCarta]

...wherever his travels took him, he would identify some semblance of a Church outpost and make his pilgrim’s way there to worship his Savior.

May we all be as devoted.

WFB, Jr. loved the Latin Mass. I remember his very witty words that he wrote about the New Mass, and I'm pretty sure that this website captured it correctly:

The next liturgical ceremony conducted primarily for my benefit, since I have no plans to be beatified or remarried, will be my own funeral; and it is a source of great consolation to me that, at my funeral, I shall be quite dead, and will not need to listen to the accepted replacement for the noble old Latin liturgy. Meanwhile, I am practicing Yoga, so that, at church on Sundays, I can develop the power to tune out everything I hear, while attempting, athwart the general calisthenics, to commune with my Maker, and ask Him first to forgive me my own sins, and implore him, second, not to forgive the people who ruined the Mass.

I enjoy reading Buckley.

[Cicero]

Thanks, I enjoyed that very much.

I think the unnamed venue must have been Portsmouth Priory, a Catholic prep school run by the Benedictines. I think the Buckleys had a connection there.

[Ann Archy]

Thanks!! I believe Catholicism IS Resplendently good....as long as it is practiced to the letter....sounds like WFB did just that!

Come on over Mr. Freeman.