I was just informed of the death of the notable classical architect Thomas Gordon Smith. Some excerpts from his obituary: He was a loving father to … Rev. Innocent Smith, O.P. …. . (Thomas)Smith led an independent architectural practice through 2015; major projects included Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey (Hulbert, OK), the Classical Galleries […]

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Cardinal Burke will celebrate a Solemn Mass at the Basilica of St. John the Evangelisit in Stamford on July 16 at 6 pm for the Feast of Our Lady of Carmel. The Basilica’s schola will sing Mozart’s “Sparrow” Mass. Also at the Basilica of St. John the Evangelist: Solemn Vespers for the Feast of Sts. […]

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At St. Martha Church, Enfield, CT, this Wednesday, June 23, a Traditional Mass for the Vigil of the Birth of St. John the Baptist will be celebrated at 7 pm, followed by a procession, bonfire and small reception (please bring a snack to share if possible). The church address is 214 Brainard Rd, Enfield. St. […]

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We have seen how the remarkable Asam Brothers – Egid Quirin and Cosmas Damian – collaborated to create St. John Nepomuk, a jewel-box of a church in Munich. It was an example of lay initiative surpassing the wildest dreams of our Vatican II reformers. For the two artist brothers themselves financed, built and decorated the […]

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Two generations have reached maturity since the end of the Second Vatican Council and the introduction of the Novus Ordo Missae, and yet the Mass of the Ages has not died. Young people raised exclusively in the sacraments of the Old Rite are now marrying and having children of their own. Traditional orders of priests […]

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Our Eastern Catholic friends inform us there will be an opportunity to participate in an Italo-Greek (or Italo-Albanian) liturgy. Date: Sunday, 18 July 2021 Time: 12:30 PM Place: Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church, 288 Vanderbilt Ave., Staten Island NY Text messsage to (516) 606-4914 if you plan to attend.

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from the president of the association Notre-Dame de Chrétienté (Our Lady of Christendom) – the organizers of the Paris/Chartres pilgrimage. This year attendance at the opening and closing masses was drastically limited by the French Coronavirus restrictions. Nor could a unified pilgrimage take place. Nevertheless, more than 11,000 pilgrims joined in smaller events dispersed all over […]

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I feel I have to respond to two items creating a tempest in the traditionalist teapot. Is it simply fortuitous that as reports circulate of an imminent confrontation between the Vatican and Traditionalists subversive voices 1) are heard?  Self-appointed “conservative” and “Traditionalist” spokesmen of the internet now denounce Traditionalists. And their alleged status as Traditionalists gives […]

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