(Above) The “communion package”   This time at the Catholic Chaplaincy of the University of Munich. To enable Students ( in the original German a politically correct, nongrammatical, androgynous form of the word is used) to receive communion at home. The idea is that in this time of pestilence everyone can be  an “extrordinary minister” […]

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(Above) The transept of the grandiose interior. My first encounter with this church was as a solitary visitor in the early 1980s. The interior was dark and dilapidated; like many other Victorian-era churches it had been painted in the course of time a miserable battleship gray. Only a few Vatican II-type banners, hung here and […]

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Church of St. Francis Xavier 30 West 16th Street “Exuberantly complex, a bit offbeat and impossible to ignore” – so David Dunlap describes St. Francis Xavier Church on West 16th street.1) The complex, gray stone exterior  with its jutting porch, towers over its neighbors on this quiet block, which include the buildings of St. Francis […]

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Freiburg Cathedral: The great past of Germany. Ida Görres lived in Freiburg and her funeral service was held at the cathedral. Görres continues as our witness for the immediate post-Conciliar period. But we now encounter her in letters exchanged with a priest friend, Paulus Gordan OSB, a monk of the Abbey of Beuron, between 1962 and […]

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(Above) Ida Görres   Broken Lights: Diaries and Letters 1951-1959 by Ida Friederike Görres Translated by Barbara Waldstein-Wartenberg (The Newman Press, Westminster 1964) (German edition: 1960) “Wirklich die neue Phönixgestalt?”  Über Kirche und Konzil: Unbekannte Briefe 1962-1971 an Paulus Gordan by Ida Friederike Görres Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz (Editor) (Be & Be Verlag, Heiligenkreuz, 2015)   You may […]

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In time for Passion Week: St. Mary Church, Norwalk will begin live streaming Masses tomorrow from the parish website: http://www.stmarynorwalk.net/main/ Traditional Low Mass tomorrow at 9:30 am

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  Una Voce: The History of the Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce Leo Darroch (Gracewing, Leominster 2017) I have long been interested in the story of American Catholic Traditionalism. Una Voce: the History of the Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce is an account of Una Voce, one of the main protagonists in Europe,  written by a former […]

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There are a few priests who have risen to the occasion. One of them is Father Joseph Scolaro, who has planned an extensive Eucharistic procession tomorrow covering a big expanse of his neighborhood. Here’s what his notice says: “You may not be able to come to the church to see the Blessed Sacrament… but he […]

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A screen shot of this morning’s 7 am Low Mass at St. Patrick’s Church, live-streamed. Father Michael Novajosky will celebrate a Missa Cantata at 6 pm this evening at St. Patrick’s Church in Bridgeport, CT.  It will be a Votive Mass in Time of Pestilence.   The Mass will be live-streamed from the Cathedral Parish […]

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Father Cipolla celebrated a Solemn Mass for Laetare Sunday at St. Mary Church, Norwalk in 2016. A screen shot of the live-streamed Mass at Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Bridgeport,   this morning, Canon Todd celebrant.   Sermon for Laetare Sunday   From the Introit:  “Laetare Jerusalem.”  Rejoice, O Jerusalem… and from today’s Gradual Psalm: “I […]

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