CHRIST AMONG THE MEDIEVAL MENDICANTS   Friday August 23, 2013 8:30am-6:30pm FREE ADMISSION (suggested donation $8) Please Register http://christ.eventbrite.com/ Room 9204 Graduate Center City University of New York 365 5th Avenue   Christ Among the Medieval Mendicants commemorates the 750th anniversary of the establishment of Corpus Christi as a universal feast day (1264) and […]

Continue reading...

The Feast of the Assumption at Holy Innocents parish, New York, now under new management: Fr. George Rutler (the celebrant of yesterday evening’s liturgy). Above, the restored Brumidi painting; below, the innumerable votive candles and this church. Above and below: the gospel. Fr. Rutler preaching: the relation of the Life of Mary and the Assumption […]

Continue reading...

There will be a Solemn Requiem Mass at 7:30pm tonight (Monday August 5th) at St. Mary Church, Norwalk, for the repose of the soul of Fr. Kevin Fitzpatrick. This marks the fifth anniversary of his untimely death. Oremus pro eo.

Continue reading...

(From: Le Forum Catholique)

Continue reading...

Connecticut: St. Gabriel, Stamford: Low Mass with Organ at 12 noon   St Stanislaus Church, New Haven.Low Mass  at 5:30pm   St. Mary, Norwalk: Solemn Mass at 5:30 pm   New York: Immaculate Conception, Sleepy Hollow: Low Mass at 5 pm   Holy Innocents, New York:  Low Mass at 8:30 am; Solemn Mass at 6 pm (Fr. George Rutler, the […]

Continue reading...

Demolition of Mary Help of Christians begins (Photo from Ginsburg’s old apartment by Daniel Maurer) No sooner had we reported on the impending fate of Mary Help of Christians in New York than the scaffolding goes up to implement the razing of the church. One very unlikely source, however, was impressed by the role of […]

Continue reading...

Jean Madiran, perhaps the most esteemed leader of French Traditional Catholicism, died yesterday at 93 years of age. As is always the case in France, his ideas on things ecclesiastical were linked with strongly held political positions – he was an ancient disciple of Charles Maurras! Yet this is not weakness, but strength – the […]

Continue reading...

From Ross Douthat in the New York Times… E.g., regarding Francis’ message of “forgiveness” for his first, scandalous appointee: “Christianity and Catholicism insist that no sin is is beyond forgiveness, and that true repentance washes away even the worst stain. But for people in positions of ecclesiastical authority, the obligation to forgive and forget is […]

Continue reading...

Once upon a time, that impeccably influential institution, the Brompton Oratory, held a liturgical congress which would be crowned by the special celebration of a Solemn High Mass. Into the sublime sacristy enter the sacred ministers: an Italian Jesuit, an American Jesuit, and a Jesuit scholastic. Busy polishing a thurible, the surly sexton stops, looks […]

Continue reading...

At NYU – it’s quite a change for a chaplaincy housed once upon a time in one of the earliest totally modern buildings in the Archdiocese – and one of the ugliest.

Continue reading...