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 had the chance to encounter Fr. Baker.  The vicissitudes of his long career are eloquent testimony to the nature of American Catholic life after […]

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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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The following churches will offer Traditional Masses on Saturday, August 15 for the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Connecticut St. Mary Church, Norwalk, 10 am Missa Cantata St. Mary Church, Greenwich, CT, 8 am Missa Cantata. n.b. in lower level chapel: enter through parish center door to left of the church. […]

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Some photos of the Mass at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in East Harlem on July18, courtesy of Mr. Brendan Young. He reports that “the bishop was overjoyed and there were about 200-250 faithful.”

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From Beltran, Edgar, “Is Pope Leo Maintaining a TLM ‘gray area’”? The Pillar ( August 3, 2026) This article comments on the obvious fact that Pope Leo has taken no official steps reducing restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass ( the “TLM”). Indeed, in one significant church a TLM he himself had authorized last year […]

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(Above) Martin Mosebach explaining things to an American visitor a few weeks ago in Kiedrich, near his home town of Frankfurt. Today, Martin Mosebach celebrates his 75th birthday. The online publication of the German Catholic Church, oddly enough, commemorates the occasion by publishing an article from the Katholischen Nachrichten-Agentur (KNA).  The interviewer characterizes Mosebach as a provokateur (an enfant terrible or, putting […]

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We encounter the art of Hildreth Meiere (1892-1961), the “mistress of Art Deco,” all over New York City: at Rockefeller Center, at St Bartholomew’s, at Fordham University Chapel – among many other sites. But her most elabotrate work is far away in Lincoln, Nebraska, For it was here, in partnership with architect Bertram Goodhue (St.Vincent […]

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Cologne Cathedral (and tourists). To see this view an admission ticket is now required. You may have heard that Cologne cathedral, the largest and most prominent Catholic church in Germany, has introduced an admission charge as of July 1.  Despite the funding available to the German Catholic Church, the cathedral has been running an increasing deficit […]

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Due to travel we regettably could not be present at the Traditional pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in East Harlem last Saturday. We have covered this pilgrimage since its inception in 2012. For the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel had become dear to CatholicTraditionalists. Did they somehow sense […]

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