31 Jul

2025

Catholic Vestiges

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Essays, Photos

In a recent visit to the cathedrals of England we encountered the traces of the prior occupant: the Catholic Church. Here and there the memory – and sometimes the tombs – of the medieval saints are preserved. For the devotion to the saints was and still is characteristic of the Catholic Church in England. Many […]

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30 Jul

2025

Close the Workshop

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Book Reviews

Close the Workshop: How the Old Mass isn’t Broken and the New Mass can’t be Fixed By Peter A. Kwasniewski 431 Pages Angelico Press, Brooklyn, NY 2025 Peter Kwasniewski has said that Close the Workshop completes and summarizes his vast written labors for the Traditional Mass. I can only agree with him on this! Kwasniewski approaches the Traditional […]

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28 Jul

2025

“Please Join us in our New Home”

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in The Churches of New York

(Above) Notice attached to the door of the former parish of St. John the Evangelist. The church and parish of St. John the Evangelist is no more. It is the end of a parish founded in 1840. But it is also the end of a modern liturgical and artistic dream – a new church built […]

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23 Jul

2025

They’re back!

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Uncategorized

Messainlatino, that is. messainlatino.it One wonders about the background to this attempted cancellation. It came exactly as the blog was publishing more revelations about the story behind Traditionis Custodes. However it originated, the cancellation generated a thousand times more international publicity than this blog ever could have hoped for.

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21 Jul

2025

Most Holy Redeemer Church in the Crosshairs?

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in The Churches of New York

(Above) Solemn vespers at Most Holy Redeemer church in 2013, with Bishop Athanasius Schneider. Stacie Joy of East Village Grieve reports that regular masses are being terminated at Most Holy Redeemer Church starting in September. 1) Most Holy Redeemer-Church of the Nativity will no longer hold a regular mass schedule starting in September, according to […]

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21 Jul

2025

On the Trail of the Holy Roman Empire: Freiburg im Breisgau

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in On the Trail of the Holy Roman Empire

(Above) The arms of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor in the apse of the Freiburg minster. (1512) The town of Freiburg lies in the south of the German region of Baden, near the Rhine and what is now the border with France. But originally it was not so. The Breisgau (in which Freiburg is located) in […]

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21 Jul

2025

Four Years of Traditionis Custodes

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Catholic Traditionalism in the United States, Uncategorized

On July16th we commemorated the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. For unclear reasons, by 2013 this feast had become, at least in the New York area, associated with the festive celebrations of the Traditional Latin Mass (“TLM”). 1) But there is a more sorrowful aspect to this day – on this same date in 2021 […]

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20 Jul

2025

Solemn Mass at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Harlem

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Masses, Photos

A Solemn Mass was celebrated yesterday at the Pontifical Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Harlem to celebrate the patronal feast day. Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament concluded the Mass.

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14 Jul

2025