Most Holy Trinity church in Mamaroneck, Westchester county, scheduled to be closed has been saved after a decison by the Vatican – the consequence of a tenacious campaign by the parishioners. Whereas on May 26, 2018, we gave a decree relegating the church of Most Holy Trinity in the Parish of Saint Vito-Most Holy Trinity, […]

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25 Aug

2020

News from the Parish of St. Monica on East 79th Street

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in The Churches of New York

From the post on the great site Ephemeral New York St. Monica’s – my old parish in 1982-83, and now, after Making all Things New “The parish of St. Monica, St. Elizabeth of Hungary and St. Stephen of Hungary.” As you can see below, a section of old tenement buildings on the corner has been […]

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25 Aug

2020

Secret Neocat Renovations in Philly?

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in The Churches of New York

From the Philadelphia Inquirer: “At Philly Catholic churches, secret renovations expose rift between traditional and Neo-Catechumenal members” (By Valerie Russ, 8/19/2020) For the last 12 years, Donna Panno, who leads the singing for Sunday Mass at St. Michael Roman Catholic Church in North Philadelphia, sat in the first pew. It was the same pew in […]

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25 Aug

2020

Reclaiming our Birthright

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Book Reviews

Reclaiming Our Roman Catholic Birthright: The Genius and Timeliness of the Traditional Latin Mass by Peter Kwasniewski Angelico Press, Brooklyn, NY, 2020 It’s amazing for a traditionalist “old-timer” – which I guess I now am – to experience the breadth and maturity of American Traditionalism today. The best evidence of that, in addition to the ever […]

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20 Aug

2020

Polyphony Returns to St. Mary’s and Another Traditional Mass is Added to the Schedule

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Uncategorized

Polyphony has returned to St. Mary Church’s in Norwalk. Bishop Caggiano has granted permsion for a 4-voice schola. This Sunday, August 23, the Schola will sing William Byrd’s Mass for Four Voices at the 9:30 a.m. Solemn Mass. Since the 9:30 a.m. Mass at St. Mary’s now regularly reaches its mandated capacity of 100 people, […]

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18 Aug

2020

Are they off their Rocker?

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Uncategorized

From the Rorate Caeli Twitter: Re-read many years later, Fritz Fischer’s “Germany’s Aims in the First World War” (Griff nach der Weltmacht) seems even more convincing: it reads like a thriller, a very well-documented thriller. Highly recommended. Griff nach der Weltmacht (The Bid for( or “Grasp after”) World Power) is one of the foundational works […]

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16 Aug

2020

Sermon for Pentecost XI

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Sermons

By Fr. Richard Cipolla Brethren, I make known unto you the Gospel which I preached to you, which also you have received and wherein you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast after what manner I preached unto you, unless you have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first […]

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14 Aug

2020