ok...done...but I must confess I voted three times. mea culpa

(FYI - I voted for three different people - Dr. Mahrt and two others. I don't want to get melofluent in trouble for putting me onto the thread. It didn't say I couldn't....so I don't think I did any harm.?))

Dr. Mahrt isn't doing too bad though. It looks like he's in third (behind Fr. Z, surprisingly).

I did.

I did my part for Mahrt.

Be smart and vote for Mahrt.

Of him one cannot Tucker out
And Ms. A of O-Z holds great clout
One Stoops to praise Bill
Buchholz still can thrill
Of all these there can be no doubt

The ruler of Schuler lies long
The merits of Skeris stay strong
Ostrowski's and Bartlett's
Have opened new markets
But MAHRT is our mission's King Kong!

http://actsoftheapostasy.wordpress.com/

Vote

Professsor Mahrt is currently tied with Cardinal Burke for second place. At 31 votes apiece, they are just 25 votes behind Cardinal Dolan.

I tried to vote but the link would not materialise on my computer. I must confess that I would be pulled in two directions: one toward Dr Mahrt, and the other toward Msgr Steenson. Incidentally, an anonymous donor has just donated five acres of land adjacent to Our Lady of Walsingham for to build an ordinariate chancery upon. Yet another Te Deum to sing! (Perhaps Dr Mahrt should lead it! -- no, it should be led by our own choirmaster.)

As of 8:10am CST:

Cardinal Dolan - 63 votes
Dr. William Mahrt - 38 votes
Cardinal Burke - 32 votes
Michael Voris - 22 votes

Cast your vote today at:
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Ben, you're one of our onboard genius', isn't it Dec.22 near the I'ntl. dateline som'eres?
Keep lobbying, then we can say that Mahrt literally saved the world!

MJO, I had problems too. At first only the "bad guys poll" was up. After I voted that and went back, the "good guy poll" was there. So try again and maybe refresh.

Mahrt is within 4 points of equating USCCB President T.C. Dolan at this straw poll.
In the cheesy quote of Lay Mee-zu-rah-bluh, "Bring him home!" Do it, do it now!
If he at least ties, then we can hoist this up to the Nat'l Catholic Register as newsworthy!
What a Christmas surprise.

This ain't Chicago, you know! :-)

That's what I told Ben! LOL - or something similar.

No problemo. Just having a little lighthearted fun. I think it'd be pretty funny if Dr Walmart beats Cardinal Dolan...

I'm glad you get the jest of it, Larry. It's kinda as if Ron Paul actually won something, but without all the baggage!

Ah, sweet angel soprano daughter o' mine, I was wonderin' where ye be?
I know this whole bit is a calculated gambit, but really, who else has labored day and night to change the face of our maligned culture here?
Love ya Mum,
C
For the rest of ye who've not ventured to vote, consider this: The nominative "Spirit of V2" callled for the contributions of the laity to the mission directives of the Church in the modern era. Who else embodies better the unity of tradition (and treasury) with the acceptance of intermediate steps towards a "unified field" sacrality in our musical domain than Bill Mahrt? Cardinal Dolan is a proven trouper. Bill Mahrt is and has always been a soldier on the front lines of the righteous side. Vote.

At the risk of not conveying sufficient respect for the fine work Prof. Mahrt has done through his illustrious career, I have to ask: why is he nominated for this? Is he an influential Catholic? Yes, very much so. But what has he influenced in 2012? Steenson, I can see. The Ordinariate has taken off and breathed new air into the Catholic Church. Dolan and George, yes, very influential, given their role in national politics. But, so far as I know, Mahrt has been keeping on with the fine work he's been doing. Which is not to be denigrated, but is there something specific he's done, or some way he's affected events ecclesiastical over the past year?

Gavin, how are studies and gig going in Houston? I pray thee well.
First of all, an honest question deserves an honest response. LarryD's blog, "Acts of the Apostacy" is first and foremost one of a number of satirically based catholic sites such as Creative MInority, the Crescat and others, and the humor these sites purvey undegirds pretty much what they put out. Larry didn't pull these names out of a hat, readership, including moi, submitted noms. And frankly, I was surprised to see that Mahrt actually made the list. But then, as you can see by the tone of my posts above, that Larry himself had to google Mahrt to find us and his humorous admonition about Chicago voting practices reflects what I've described. But now, there might be people, especially if Mahrt wins this straw poll, who will also be intrigued enough to google him and thereby us, and spread the word of what we and CMAA do. It's not a "for real" contest, it's a pageant. C's. Dolan and Burke are no less or no more eminent and worthy than Mahrt, but personally I think it'd be a hoot if our supremely modest, Yoda-like sensei won the pageant representing the apostacy of orthodox Catholics from the gulags of "bad taste and political correctness" that have ruled the roost for two generatons. Don't worry, be happy.

Dolan : 26.94 % (73 votes)
Mahrt : 26.2 % (71 votes)

c'mon guys!

(In t' other poll Kathleen Sebelius is leadin', with Joe Biden nippin' at 'er heels)

Okay, cards on table.
I embraced catholicism at 19 because of the liturgy in 1970. I had no idea it was compromised, how could I? In Oakland, at the cathedral with Brahms, Beatles, Temple and Dixieland, it was a musical orgy. But I knew underneath all the visceral excitement was the living skeleton that is the Ritual of the Divine Liturgy, the Holy Mass. It,at once, made sense, made one love, made one aware of each other's importance in all things seen and unseen.
I followed the paths that both Christ, His Church and (for good or ill) her "agents" placed before me. And I sure as snot knew it all by my second assignment as a choir director at a major parish at 22.
I knew so much that when I was in my fifties I was still cocky and obnoxious enough to parce and fisk the occasional writings of one Wm. Mahrt I'd run into on the internet via Adoremus or other reprints, and was sure my polemics were more informed than his in his own insulated world a stone's throw away in Palo Alto.
When I first heard of a CMAA colloquium via a forum, "Six Days of Musical Heaven," my first thought was "how arrogant!" That was 2005. But by following the lead to Musica Sacra, I attended a colloquium in 2006. Tho' I came from DC still feeling a bit like an alien in a foreign land, from the first compline, Wm. Mahrt was not whatever pedigog I had pigeon-holed in my mental fortress. He changed my life forever, being, at once, the living voice of Jesus chanting the Hallel, the St. Gregory of vision and servitude, and St. Cecilia, the pure voice of the Bride of Christ singing the Song of Songs.
I can't say how many can share similar encounters and transformations, but I suspect I'm not at all alone.
I've met a lot of bishops, a couple of cardinals and they're great apostles, disciples and witnesses. I've never met anyone like Bill Mahrt. That's the truth, and that's that.

Into the lead...

It is right and just!
SDG

Proxy sites are good. :-)

Kinda late for that, ain't it, Melo?

Yeah, I don't even read Melo's posts any more if they're longer than two lines, 'cause the obfuscation kicks in about there. Not my fault. :-)

Well I only voted once. I don't live in Chicago.