by Father Richard Cipolla Once again we hear from the highest circles of power in the Church of the possibility of ordaining married men to the priesthood. But this time, what is being talked about is not men in “special circumstances” but in general. I was able and gratuitously blessed to be ordained a Catholic […]

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Monday evening at St Vincent Ferrer: a Solemn Requiem in the Dominican rite – accompanied by Mozart’s requiem directed by James Wetzel. The combination of ceremonial, music and the Gothic splendor of this church, vast and mysterious in the semi-darkness, left a unique impression in this month of prayer for the dead. It was not […]

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 On Tuesday, November 21st at 7:30 p.m., there will be a Solemn  Mass for the Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the Pontifical Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in East Harlem, New York. The sermon and readings from the pulpit will be in Spanish. After Mass there will be […]

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(Above) Pope Clement XIV (1769-1774) was a spineless individual who labored to please the powers of this world – in his day, the absolute monarchies – by abolishing the Jesuit order and imprisoning its leaders. His sympathizers financed well after his death this great monument by Canova, that disingenuously depicts this pope as a grandly […]

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Monday, November 13 Solemn Requiem Mass in the Dominican Rite, St. Vincent Ferrer Church, New York, 7 pm, featuring Mozart’s Requiem in D Minor, K. 626. information Solemn Requiem Mass, St. Mary Church, Greenwich, CT, 7:30 pm. Tuesday, November 14, Votive Mass for the Dead, St. Stanislaus Church, New Haven, 7 pm. Wednesday, November 15, […]

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The church of St. Vincent Ferrer in New York will offer a Missa Cantata in the Dominican Rite for the Feast of the Saint Albert the Great, a Dominican bishop and teacher of Saint Thomas Aquinas, on Wednesday, November 15th at 7 pm. The Schola will sing the Taverner’s  Missa Sancti Wilhelmi devotio,  Palestrina’s Justus […]

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The Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced a major exhibit planned for 2018 which examines how fashions have been inspired by Catholic iconography and style.  It will feature a large collection of garments and accessories on loan from the Vatican.  The show is entitled “Heavenly Bodies:  Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.” […]

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