As the English bishop complained to his Catholic counterpart and friend: “We send you our best and you send us your worst.”
For some reason your Tatler is on the e-mail list of St Thomas Church in the City of New York (Episcopal), this despite having quit that congregation long ago, before there even was email. The reason for his quitting was the gleaning over time the absolutely superb liturgy and music at St Thoms were as devoid of spirituality as most of the musicals playing on Broadway three blocks west.
Still, despite the writer’s eventually perceiving the exquisite services at St Thomas as more glitzy than godly, the church did seem at the time, in addition to preserving the beauties and formalities of Anglican worship, maintaining a reasonably traditional and conservative point of view (not withstanding some unpleasant rumors circulating about its rector), this, while its parent the Episcopal Church was already spiraling into madness.
Not having thought about St Thomas, Church for some time, an email received this morning surprised and though only glanced at, seemed to affirm the church was still holding the line against the radical changes going on all around it in the Episcopal Church. Herewith is the entirety of that email, such as your Tatler thought it was.
Not long afterword your Tatler received an email from an old friend, Invicta veritas, who received the same email from St Thomas’s, but had scrolled further down than your Tatler and found the following.
Oh.
Perhaps it’s appropriate here to point out there are former Anglicans who forsook the gorgeous liturgy and music of their church for the insipid mediocrity of modern Catholic worship, and, more important and without going into detail, at great personal sacrifice to themselves and others. Nonetheless, when revealed to them the Holy Catholic Church, despite its manifest shortcomings these days, is the one true Church, they chucked it all and swam the Tiber. The Rev’d Dr Luigi Gioia seems to have lost sight of this enormous truth in his desire for marriage in violation of Church teachings,
It should also be pointed out, ice cream does not take the plural.
The Taos Tatler 
If only it was Claudia I would have been fine with it.
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What gives you the right to judge another. Judge yourself first. I find that the Choir is very spiritual. It is said as you pray so shall you believe to which I would was you sing so will you believe. And in addition, that the Men particularly must cobble “gigs” together to make ends meet so that they might live and work in NYC which is the capital of the various arts in the USA. Furthermore there are many of us who swam the Tiber to find the solemnity. beauty and depth of the Anglican Liturgy. And a few of us are former monks and current musicians who pray through our art.
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By your question may we presume you have never, ever judged another yourself? Besides, I wasn’t passing judgment, merely pointing out this former priest once swore before God to affirm and uphold Church teachings, including that concerning same-sex marriage. Yet upon finding the latter interfered with his personal life, it was: “Oops, sorry, never mind,” and he decamped to the Anglicans. They are welcome to him.
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