Join Village Preservation, parishioners, and fellow East Village and preservation organizations for a rally on Monday, August 31 at 6 pm in front of the Most Holy Redeemer Church at 173 East 3rd Street (east of Avenue A). The church was closed to parishioners one year ago. The rally is being organized to call for the historic […]

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(Above) The former church of Our Lady of Guadalupe today. Sometime after 2012 an elaborate repainting of the facade was carried out. (photo 8/19/2026) (We continue our discussion of the church of Our Lady of Guadalupe, now threatened with destruction: The Sale of Our Lady of Guadalupe, etc. (8/18/2026) For our description of this parish in its […]

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Last week another successful Chant Camp took place at St. Mary’s Church, Norwalk, CT, led by Charles Weaver, Elizabeth Weaver and Nicholas Botkins. The children sang a Missa Cantata every day at 12:10. The picture here is courtesy of Mark Bertotti.

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Sources in New York City have received word that the Archdiocese of New York, faced with financing an $800M settlement for clerical sexual abuse,  is proceeding to the sale of several properties:  Rallying to Save Our Lady of Guadalupe, Now Even More Imminently Threatened, villagepreservation.org (8/13/2026) (with links to presentations and a petition to landmark the building) Kelly, […]

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The Traditional Latin Mass in Danbury CT, we are informed,  will end on September 27th. The Mass has been most recently celebrated, after 2023 and Traditionis Custodes, in the chapel of Immaculate High School. It is the heir to two traditional Masses that had formerly been celebrated at parishes in the vicinity. One was at the parish of St. […]

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Communion: Finding my Way back to Faith by JD Vance (Harper, New York, 2026) 288 pp. In Communion Vice President JD Vance gives us an account of his spiritual journey from evangelical Protestantism to atheism to Catholicism. He tells us that this book was largely written by 2019. As we shall see, there is evidence for that. […]

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We have recently received the sorrowful news that Father Kenneth Baker, SJ has died (8/6/2026). He was 96 and resided in the Los Gatos, California Jesuit retirement community.  Many of our readers may have had the chance to encounter Fr. Baker.  The vicissitudes of his long career are eloquent testimony to the nature of American Catholic life […]

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A beautiful sung Mass is offered every Saturday morning in Greenwich, CT. This Mass takes place in the lower chapel. You need to enter from the parish center door to the left of the church. Plenty of parking in front of the church.

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