Deacon Joseph Marie Falciano, FSSP, will be ordained to the priesthood at St. Cecilia Cathedral in Omaha on May 28. His first Mass will follow on May 29 at the Carmel of Jesus, Mary and Joseph in Valpraiso, Nebraska. He will celebrate Solemn Mass at St. Mary’s Church in Norwalk on Tuesday June 9 at […]

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CREW is a Catholic Leadership Program that serves teens in the greater Danbury area and brings community, tradition, and the Traditional Mass to teens who would otherwise never have access to or experience it.

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(Above) St. Brigid (Bridget) school in January 2013. Closed in 2019 and now to be sold. The Archdiocese and secular media have now disclosed the magnitude of the settlement of sex abuse cases. The question now is how this money is to be obtained. One obvious source is the sale of Catholic schools and parishes. […]

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The Wall Street Journal today returns to the theme of young Catholics attending Mass at Saint Joseph’s in the Village and at Saint Patrick’s basilica. Bhutani, Anvee, “Gen. Z finds a home in Sunday Mass,” Page A3, The Wall Street Journal, (Monday 5/4/2026). As in the case of the Epstein saga,  this report continues the trend of the mainstream […]

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Bishop Steven Lopes, Deacon and subdeacon ( represented by priests?) and concelebrating clergy at a solemn ordinariate Mass. (7/2022) Peter Kwasniewski at Rorate Coeli has reported that instructions have been given in the Anglican ordinariates that priests may not assume the role of deacon and subdeacon at a Solemn Mass. If priests other than the celebrant wish […]

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After Newman: A Eulogy for Anglo-Catholics 1845-1965 by Aidan Nichols, OP Gracewing, Leominster 2025 255 pages Fr. Aiden Nichols, OP offers us a “eulogy” for Anglo-Catholics. I would note, first, that Fr. A. Nichols, “OP” is obviously once more a Dominican –  his move to the Premonstratensian order having gone nowhere. Second, he calls this book a eulogy: […]

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An interview with Abbot Jeremias Schröder OSB. Interviewer: What role does the liturgy play (in the Benedictine order) ? Is there a trend to the old liturgy in the Benedictine monasteries? Is there a conflict there between traditionalists and moderns? “I don’t see a conflict. Among us Benedictines the traditional liturgy and today’s liturgy coexist, […]

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