After Newman: A Eulogy for Anglo-Catholics 1845-1965 by Aidan Nichols, OP Gracewing, Leominster 2025 255 pages Fr. Aiden Nichols, OP offers us a “eulogy” for Anglo-Catholics. I would note, first, that Fr. A. Nichols, “OP” is obviously once more a Dominican –  his move to the Premonstratensian order having gone nowhere. Second, he calls this book a eulogy: […]

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An interview with Abbot Jeremias Schröder OSB. Interviewer: What role does the liturgy play (in the Benedictine order) ? Is there a trend to the old liturgy in the Benedictine monasteries? Is there a conflict there between traditionalists and moderns? “I don’t see a conflict. Among us Benedictines the traditional liturgy and today’s liturgy coexist, […]

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The Disastrous Pontificate: Pope Francis’ Rupture from the Magisterium  by Dominic J. Grigio Os Justi Press(Lincoln, NE, 2025) 845 pages. Already we have the first history of the pontificate of Pope Francis: The Disastrous Pontificate gives us an early summary of the Francis years. This substantial book is divided into three parts.  The first is a systematic exposition […]

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La Trahison des pères : Emprise et abus des fondateurs de communautés nouvelles By Céline Hoyeau  Bayard Editions, 2021 352 pages The Betrayal of the Fathers confronts a crisis that has been simmering within the Church for decades – namely, the new spiritual “movements” and their all too frequent  deviation into spiritual and sexual abuse. Celine Hoyeau,  who works for the […]

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We read that the Archdiocese of New York convened an “emergency” meeting of the clergy, outlining to them the dire financial condition of the archdiocese confronted by sexual abuse claims. Parishes and schools will have to contribute to the settlement fund – or else the archdiocese willl have to file for bankruptcy. Kelly, Keith J., […]

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(Above) St. Joseph’s in the Village. I recently decided to check out for myself the recently reported Catholic revival downtown. First, I visited  one of the epicenters – St. Joseph in the Village  – around 2:00 in the afternoon on a weekday.  I found it padlocked. The much-publicized  perpetual adoration chapel of 2023 is accessible through the rectory. Exposition […]

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“The program will display the dizzying range of music that coexisted in one place a one time.” Cifras nuevas presents music from the 16th and 17th centuries for the duo of harp and guitar or vihuela. Widely attested to in European iconography and Latin American folkloric traditions, this combination of instruments performed music ranging from ornamented canto […]

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Two parishes, in two boroughs of the same city, in two dioceses of the same Church. In a Catholic parish (and school)of the Brooklyn Diocese, a teacher and music director loses his positions becuse he has married a man. In a parish of the New York Archdiocese – the very upscale Jesuit institution of St. […]

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Great News from the Lower East Side Preservation Initiative (LESPI)- the historic church of St. Mary’s has been landmarked! There had been rumors that the Archdiocese was closing it. Wonderful news! On Tuesday, the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) Commissioners voted unanimously to designate the Church of St. Mary on Grand Street an Individual Landmark. […]

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I have just seen this article in the First Things Daily Newsletter of April 8th, 2026: Parks, Jillian, “Looking for the Real Catholic Church in New York City” Jillian Parks is a “junior fellow” at First Things magazine – in other words, a recent college graduate. She describes herself as a “Reformed Protestant.” Does this mean, in the […]

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