The results are in for Germanchurch, 2019: 400,000 fewer Catholics than in the previous year – 270,000 of that number represented those who offcially declared themselves no longer Catholic. It’s the worst result ever, a new low point after years of disastrous decline. Except for an increase of 8 permanent deacons, all other statistics are […]

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“I’ve read a lot of history in my life, and I think that aside from St. Paul, Jesus and the great religious prophets, Woodrow Wilson was the most admirable character I’ve ever encountered in history.“ So spoke Arthur Link, dedicated biographer of Wilson, according to Link’s NYT obituary. Professor Link’s work reflected a shift in […]

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Frs. Kachuba and Iannacone will be offering Low Masses every week from now on on Mondays and Thursdays at St. Pius X Church in Fairfield, CT at 7 pm.

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Under the prior management of St Mary’s parish, a Columbus day procession to this nearby statue was an annual event. Above is a set of pictures from the 2009 procession. It features several prominent former members of the parish, living and deceased, clerical and lay (including the current pastor and his two predecessors). Now the […]

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The Mass is at 7:00 PM.

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On the teaching of Latin at the Academy of St. Gregory the Great in Pennsylvania, a traditional Catholic high school: In the same way, the Latin course at St. Gregory’s was taught according to the Direct or Nature Method. Here, as with the natural world, the object of study was approached with respect for what […]

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at direction of our media, other statues are rising: After months of discussions, Trier (in Germany -SC)city council voted on Monday in favor of accepting a 6.3-meter (21-foot) bronze representation of the revolutionary socialist thinker Karl Marx. Council members in the southern western German town voted by a majority of 42 to 11. The debate over the gift […]

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The Traditional Mass: History, Form and Theology of the Classical Roman Rite  By Michael Fiedrowicz. Translated by Rose Pfeiffer Angelico Press, Brooklyn, NY, 2020 A wonderful addition to any Roman Catholic’s library is the new translation of Fr. Michael Fiedrowicz’s The Traditional Mass. For the moment, it is the definitive handbook on the Traditional liturgy: […]

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Uprooted: Dialogues on the Liquid Church By Aldo Maria Valli and Aurelio Porfiri Translated by Giuseppe Pellegrino Chorabooks, Hong Kong, 2019 To comprehend the great events and trends of our time do we not turn first to the witnesses, even the direct participants,  for the most immediate and elemental insights? Didn’t Whittaker Chambers’s Witness and the works […]

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