Our Society will be sponsoring a Solemn Mass at St. Agnes Church in Brooklyn for the Feast of St. Joan of Arc on Wednesday,  May 30 at 7 pm. A historic church lovingly called the “Cathedral of Brooklyn,” by locals,  St. Agnes is located at 433 Sackett Street in Carroll Gardens. This will be the […]

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A Solemn Mass votive Mass to Our Lady Help of Christians was offered yesterday for the persecuted Church in China at the Basilica of St. John the Evangelist in Stamford, CT. The celebrant was Fr. Cyprian La Pastina. This Mass anticipates Annual World Day of Prayers for China on May 24, which was instituted in […]

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The high point of the exhibition is this early original work by Bernini – a portrait bust of St Robert Bellarmine. The Holy Name: Art of the Gesu: Bernini and his Age. (At Fairfield University Art Museum) Taking refuge from the overblown, paganistic megashows of Gotham City, we turn to a smaller, more focused but […]

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Heavenly Bodies! Part II (We conclude our coverage of the new Met exhibition. Part I can be found HERE. No photography was permitted in the Vatican exhibition space – your reporter was one of the minority adhering to the rules.) Now what of the “Vatican” part of the exhibition? Actually, it’s “much ado about nothing.” […]

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Solemn Latin High Mass will be offered at the Basilica of Saint John the Evangelist, Stamford, Connecticut, on Friday, May 18, 2018 at 7PM for the persecuted Church in China. Your prayers, sacrifices and Masses for the Church in China are especially urgent now.

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I approached this “show” with trepidation given the tasteless title. Catholicism and the commercial fashion industry – what points of contact could there be today? If we are to judge by what is sold next to supermarket checkout counters, American women indeed are obsessed with their bodies. And a stroll up Fifth Avenue, such as […]

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Saturday was a perfect day for the Lepanto conference. It was the feast of St Pius V, with whose support the famous battle was fought. It was the same St Pius V who codified the traditional Roman rite, which was so beautifully celebrated at this conference. And to have all this take place amid the […]

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Sermon for the Feast of St. Pius V, preached by Father Richard Cipolla at the Lepanto Youth Rallyin Waterbury, Connecticut, 5 May, 2018 Fr. Cipolla processing with a relic of St. Pius V today in Waterbury There is a church in Rome not too far from the train station, Termini. Its exterior looks like many […]

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The Lepanto Youth Conference will begin  at 10 am tomorrow at Immaculate Conception Basilica in Waterbury, CT.  We are expecting several hundred Catholic high schoolers, college students, and young professionals. We have three outstanding priest speakers:  Fr. Tim Iannocone, Fr. Joachim Keeney, OP and Fr. Rufus Kenny. At 1 pm  a Solemn Mass will be celebrated […]

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The Met has an extraordinary new exhibition of the painting of colonial Mexico – particularly of the 18th century. We forget how important Mexico and Mexico City were in the 18th century – when the former British colonies of North America were just getting organized. Did not St Peter, the first Catholic church in New […]

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