Monday, March 19 is the Feast of St. Joseph. These churches will offer the traditional Mass: Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, 259 Oliver Street, Newark, Solemn Mass, 7 pm. Coffee and refreshments served after mass in Rectory. Rev Msgr Joseph F. Ambrosio, Celebrant and Pastor. St. Mary Church, Norwalk, CT, low Mass, 7:30 am. […]

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Among the Ruins: the Decline and Fall of the Roman Catholic Church by Paul L. Williams Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York 2017 We seem to be “on a roll”: new books on the manifold Catholic crises appear now almost weekly. No sooner had I written about the Catholic “decline and fall” genre when a new […]

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St. Stephen’s Church in Kearny, New Jersey, will celebrate a Missa Cantata on Easter Wednesday, April 4th at 7:00 p.m. This will be the second Traditional Latin Mass at the parish since the changes of Vatican II and the first time that the pastor, the Very Reverend Joseph Mancini, will celebrate the Traditional Liturgy.

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The ancient Christian empire seems to be gaining more and more attention – despite recent denunciations by Team Francis. Two weeks ago we had the pleasure of hearing a 17th century Holy Week oratorio by Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, written in 1678 for Emperor Leopold I. Just this last Saturday we attended the performance of a […]

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(Above) Image of the Twenty-one in a revived “Coptic” style. The common people usually prefer cruder but more expressive images. Die 21: Eine Reise ins Land der koptischen Martyrer (The 21: A Journey to the Land of the Coptic Martyrs) 2018 Rowohlt Verlag G.m.b.H. Reinbeck bei Hamburg The image on the cover of a magazine […]

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A Solemn Requiem Mass was celebrated this morning by Fr. Cyprian La Pastina at the Basilica of St. John the Evangelist, Stamford, CT, to mark the anniversary of the death of Ignatius Cardinal Kung. David Hughes led the Viri Galilaei, the men’s chant choir from St. Mary Norwalk.  The Mass was sponsored by the Cardinal […]

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The Dominican Rite Mass for the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas on March 7 at St. Vincent Ferrer Church, New York. Photo courtesy of Diana Yuan.

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The Society of Our Lady of Sacro Monte will be having its monthly Rosary this Saturday, March 10th at 11:00 a.m. at St. Anthony’s Oratory in West Orange. Following the Rosary, everyone is invited to join the society for brunch at a local eatery. The idea is that once a month we can offer an […]

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  L’Arte di Dio: Sacri Pensieri, Profane Idee Edited by Cristina Siccardi (2017 Edizioni Cantagalli S.r.I., Siena) Art and Religion, Beauty and the Sacred: topics that have received ever-increasing attention among Catholic Traditionalists as their movement matures and, moving beyond the mere survival of the liturgy, addresses fundamental issues of our culture. In general, Traditionalists […]

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