Matthew of Whapping got interviewed by NPR today on Rumors of Indults –

What happened was NPR sent a little news team down to St. Agnes on 43rd Street to do a parishioner-in-the-street interview. And I was the parishioner. This is another bit of evidence that Indult Fever is verily and truly upon us, and it’s not merely a wee rumor percolating within the blogosphere. Also, this actually is pretty old hat for me–the top of my head was in a crowd scene on a local Tampa news channel when I was 12.

So I know all about showbiz.

Why me? Or, since Dawn Eden got interviewed with me, and Andrew Cusack was there too, why us? I don’t know if we stuck out, well, that much. The crowd at St. Agnes is a little bit older than I’ve seen at St. John Cantius in Chicago or the other St. Agnes, the one in St. Paul, but there’s still enough young folks and families with kids to be worth commenting on. More interesting is the fairly sizable number of middle-aged Tridentinists; truly the lost generation when it comes to these circumstances. Dawn Eden, Andrew Cusack, my friend Joel, and our mutual friend Drusilla, and I were young and also conveniently in the closest clump to the reporter and her microphone-bearer. So I started pontificating into the recorder.

I’m not sure what bits they’ll splice out as their soundbites, but I gave them, in capsule form, a little run-down on what the old rite means to me, and what I thought Benedict was trying to do with the indult. I explained that I alternate back and forth between a Novus Ordo parish that does a tradition-minded mass in mixed English and Latin, and the Tridentine Rite, and that I benefitted a lot spiritually from both forms of the mass.

More. And Drew of Whapping is predicting, for reasons unknown, a November 4 date for interesting things to happen.