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Sermon for Pentecost IX by Father Richard Cipolla From the gospel of St. Matthew:  Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.  And from today’s epistle from Paul to the Corinthians:  Let no temptation take hold on you, but such as is human: and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above […]

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(Above and below) The somewhat arid appearance today of the late Gothic Frauenkirche in Munich, Germany. Reformers took the opportunity of repairing severe wartime damage to carry out a wholesale housecleaning. “They got rid of all the junk!” an otherwise esteemed professor told me gleefully once in my student days at Georgetown. It now turns […]

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A Response to George Weigel By Father Richard G. Cipolla Recently George Weigel offered an Op-Ed titled  “A Paradox for the Next Pope” as part of the Wall Street Journal’s Houses of Worship series.  He quite rightly calls attention to several issues that will confront the successor of Pope Francis:  confronting and ending the terrible scandal of sexual […]

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  “Thirteen years after naming a new residence hall at Loyola University Maryland in honor of the Catholic author Flannery O’Connor, Jesuit Fr. Brian Linnane, the university’s president, removed the writer’s name from the building. Concerns about her use of racist language in private correspondence prompted more than 1,000 people to sign an online petition […]

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Pity the poor parish! Msgr. George A. Kelly devoted an entire book to the development of this institution, focusing on the church of St. John the Evangelist in New York City. 1) By 1973 Msgr. Kelly (who, appropriately enough for our age, is already listed as “Professor in Contemporary Catholic Problems”) had to record a […]

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The following churches will offer the Traditional Mass on the Feast of the Assumption, Saturday, August 15: For the Vigil of the Assumption (Friday, Aug. 14): St Pius X Church, Fairfield, CT 7 pm. August 15 St. Joseph Church, South Norwalk, CT, 9 am Missa Cantata, Fr. Cipolla celebrant. St. Augustine Cathedral, Bridgeport, CT, 9 […]

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The Lamp: A Catholic Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Etc. Website. Over the transom comes the latest attempt to establish a serious “Catholic journal.” We have covered here and there in this blog the previous ventures from the early 1970’s onward, after the demise of Triumph magazine.1) The most recent iteration was the […]

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The First Annual Soul of the Apostolate Online Conference will make its debut this coming weekend – July 24-27, 2020. Some of the major speakers at this conference will be Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, Bishop Athanasius Schneider, Bishop Joseph Strickland, Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Dom Alcuin Reid, Sam Guzman, and Dr. Ralph Martin. This […]

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