By Fr. Richard Cipolla For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings. (2 Timothy: 3-4) I have always loved this phrase “itching ears” in this passage from the Second Epistle to Timothy. These are those who hearing sound […]

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An interesting reaction to TC from the Orthodox world. I would of course disagree with some of the historical descriptions and theological views asserted below. Nevertheless, the conflict the author indentifies between “the unlimited power and obedience that was given to the bishop of Rome” and “the apostolic rite, apostolic disciplines and apostolic faith” gets […]

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This First Friday, September 3, 2021, at 7:00 pm there will be a Missa Cantata at Church of the Most Holy Redeemer in Manhattan. Following Mass, Fr. Donald Kloster will give a 30 minute talk on “Spiritual Battles.”  He will also will bring a relic of St. Pius X for veneration (September 3rd is his […]

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Today was the feast of the Beheading (Decollatio) of St. John the Baptist – as was commemorated at Mass today at Sts. Cyril and Methodius church (ICRSS). Metropolitan Opera Radio (on Sirius XM) had Richard Strauss’s Salome on the program this afternoon – a coincidence?

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