Parishioners at Most Precious Blood, a 120-year-old Church in Little Italy that is at the heart of the annual San Gennaro festival each September, were told they were going to be assigned a pastor that they will share with an East Village parish. The move comes after Cardinal Dolan rescinded its ten year merger with […]

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Here is the schedule for September 2024 TLMs at the Shrine Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament. Flyers below. SAT 9/7 – 9am – First Saturday MON 9/9 – 7pm – Pontifical Requiem, Purgatorial Society WED 9/11 – 7pm – Blessed Maria de Micheli SAT 9/14 – 9am – Exaltation of the Holy Cross THU 9/19 – 7pm – […]

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Dimes Square is back in the news! This emerging outpost of bohemianism – yet with a traditionalist Catholic  flavor –  is the subject of a recent article in The Christian Science Monitor. 1) “Dimes Square” is a downtown area bordering Chinatown and the Lower East Side. The author of this piece, Leonardo Bevilacqua, describes this scene and some […]

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Here is a note from, Fr. Sean Connolly, the new pastor of St. Margaret of Cortona, Bronx: The Low Latin Mass at St. Margaret’s on the first Sunday of each month at 3:00 p.m. is discontinued. We will be offering instead, a Sung Latin Mass at 12 noon in honor of the Immaculate Heart of […]

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By Jill Chessman If one is travelling in the Wisconsin area, it is worth it to visit the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse. The shrine project was conceived by Raymond Cardinal Burke, while he was Bishop of La Crosse in the 1990s. Beginning with the ground breaking in 2001, Cardinal Burke […]

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That didn’t take long! On 5/20/2024 the Archdiocese of New York published the decree of merger of the parish of St. John the Evangelist into the parish of Holy Family. On 8/6/20024 the archdiocese announced the “relegation” of the church of St. John the Evangelist to profane use in anticipation of the sale of the […]

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On 6/17/12017 Cardinal Dolan decreed that the parish of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, already closed in 2014, would be “relegated to secular use” (in other words, sold). Now Ephemeral New York reports that the parish property has been sold for $11.8M. The church has been stripped of all its stained glass, bell and decorations and […]

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Pontifical Solemn High Requiem Mass for the souls of the enrollees of the Purgatorial Society of St Andrew Avellino. Enroll your deceased loved ones at purgatorialsociety.org before the mass to receive the benefits of this and 4 Latin Requiem Masses per year. Unlimited number of souls can be enrolled.

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I found I had overlooked one sad item of recent news, of special significance to those familiar with Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Visitation Monastery and its all-girls academy have closed after 169 years. The convent and school were established in Brooklyn in the 1855; at least initially the nuns taught both Catholic and Protestant girls. The […]

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