St. Mary Church, Norwalk, CT is offering at chant camp for children of all ages to learn about singing and reading music, and in particular Gregorian chant. The camp will take place from Monday August 18 to Friday August 22, from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm each day. No prior musical experience is required, and […]

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Certainly one of the most tragic losses inflicted by the Council and its implementers was the disappearance of the liturgical “black” vestments for the requiem mass, Good Friday etc. This color however happily survives in the ‘Gregorian” (Traditional) Mass. We say “black” in quotation marks because such vestments, in my experience, are always worked with […]

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Recent days have seen the death of two men who had maintained their devotion to the Traditional liturgy even in the most hostile times immediately prior to the promulgation of Summorum Pontificum. They were called by God just after a brighter future for the Mass of Tradition started to dawn. But as a sign of […]

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A large crowd packed the downstairs chapel of St. Mary’s Church in Norwalk last evening in the sweltering heat to observe the 40th anniversary of the promulgation of Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae. The Votive Mass to the Sacred Heart of Jesus was celebrated by Fr. Gregory Markey according to the 1962 missal. The Mass […]

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I must confess to a growing irritation with the unending postconciliar stream of antiwar (and anti-death penalty)utterances emanating from the Catholic hierarchy (including the Vatican itself). In earlier ages (most recently that of Cardinal Spellman) Catholics held quite different views. I looked around the city for some tangible signs of militant Catholicism – in secular […]

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The quirky, the touching and the magnificent – such is the exhibit “Catholics 1808-1946” at the Museum of the City of New York. I am surprised this show has not attracted more attention and commentary pro and con – here are some highlights… Special vestments for the centenary celebration of the Archdiocese in 1908. “Before […]

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Friday, July 25 is the 40th Anniversary of the promulgation of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae . St. Mary’s Church in Norwalk, CT will be sponsoring an event that evening to observe the occasion and to celebrate Natural Family Planning Week. The evening begins at 6:30 pm with High Mass in the Extraordinary Form […]

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Catholics in New York 1808-1946. (The Museum of the City of New York, May 16 through December 31) The daily news for those of us who adhere to the Roman Catholic persuasion here is a dreary one: churches, schools and hospitals closing; clerical vocations and lay religious practice dwindling; perverted, thieving and just plain crazy […]

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The National Coalition of Clergy and Laity is sponsoring a retreat this Saturday, July 5 at St. Anthony of Padua Chapel in West Orange, NJ. The Rev. Father Andreas Hellmann of the Institute of Christ the King will direct the retreat. The retreat is intended to coordinate with the Coalition’s annual Pilgrimage for Restoration to […]

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On April 6, 2006 the Militia Templi celebrated solemn vespers at their priory at Poggibonsi near Siena. Among the participating clergy were His Grace the Archbishop of Siena and Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro. For more on the Templars see: http://www.militiatempli.org./

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