For the Feast of the Annunciation, March 25, Edward Cardinal Egan, Archbishop Emeritus of New York, will celebrate a Pontifical Mass according to the 1962 Missal to mark the 15th anniversary of Evangelium Vitae (“The Gospel of Life”), the pro-life encyclical by Pope John Paul II. Issued on March 25, 1995, the encyclical condemns murder, […]

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Fr. John Zuhlsdorf will preach at the parish mission of the Church of St. Joseph, 15 Cedar St., Bronxville, NY., Monday March 22 to Thursday March 25. The topic of the mission is “The Four Last Things.” For more information call the church at 914-337-1660.

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Tomorrow, March 17, there will be a Solemn Mass for the Feast of St. Patrick, Patron of the Archdiocese of New York and, therefore, a First Class Feast in the Archdiocese, Wednesday, March 17th at 6 PM at the Church of the Holy Innocents in Manhattan (37th Street between Broadway and 7th Avenue).There will be […]

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(The philosopher Santayana asks, at the very heart of the “golden age” of American Catholicism, whether the American Catholics were Catholic at all. I leave to the reader’s consideration the relevance of Santayana’s analysis to the post-conciliar church in the US.) Consider, for instance, the American Catholics, of whom there are nominally many millions, and […]

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Not a few readers of our report on last Sunday’s Traditional Mass at University Church at Fordham remarked on the splendid reredos above the main altar. These panels from 1942 are the work of one of the premiere American Catholic artists of that era: Hildreth Meiere. She flourished from the 1920’s through the 1940’s as […]

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The Solemn Traditional Mass returned to Fordham University this afternoon in appropriately splendid form. Music, vestments and ceremonial were, as expected, first rate. This liturgy was celebrated at the request of students and the sizable congregation of visitors and students (miraculous in the normal context of “campus ministry”) evidenced the high level of interest. Fordham […]

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David J. Hughes, organist and choirmaster of St. Mary’s Church in Norwalk, will teach a course in Gregorian Chant for Beginners at Holy Innocents Church in Manhattan. The Class will meet for eight consecutive sessions, starting March 3 (skipping Holy Week). Each session of the course will begin just after the 6 PM Missa Cantata […]

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A traditional Latin Mass will be celebrated in Immaculate Conception Chapel on the following Mondays at 7:00 p.m.: March 1, March 22, April 19 and May 3. Seton Hall University is located at 400 South Orange Ave., South Orange, NJ.

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Fordham University Jesuits will offer a Solemn Mass in the Extraordinary Form at the high altar of the Fordham University Church next Sunday, February 28 at 2:30 pm. The celebrant will be the Rev. Stephen M. Fields, S.J., Associate Professor of Theology at Georgetown University and the priest who was instrumental in bringing the Traditional […]

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There will be a Missa Cantata for the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter, Monday, February 22nd, at the Church of St. Agnes in Manhattan at 6:15 PM sponsored by the New York Purgatorial Society. The Church of the Holy Innocents in Manhattan will also offer a Traditional Mass at 6 pm.

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