A window in St Veronica’s showing the patron saint of the Parish. As we just wrote, Archdiocesan information on the subject of church closings is never complete or reliable. We now read that the beautiful church of St Veronica on Christopher Street will now be celebrating its last mass on July 23. It had received […]

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Saint Mary Church in Greenwich will celebrate a Votive Mass of the Precious Blood in the Extraordinary Form on Friday, July 14th at 7:30 in the evening. On Wednesday, July 26th at 7:30 in the evening Mass will be celebrated for the Feast of Saint Ann. Mass will be celebrated in the lower Church as […]

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Our Lady of Mount Carmel over the main altar in Our Lady of Mount Carmel Pontifical Shrine, New York Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Newark   Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church,  259 Oliver Street,  Newark: There will be a Solemn High Latin Mass on Saturday July 15th at 5pm followed by a Procession […]

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For those travelling in Massachusetts, Mary Immaculate of Lourdes is a good church to know about. We visited this church yesterday for the 10:30 am Sunday Traditional Mass. Well-attended, with an altar boy count to rival St. Mary’s Norwalk, and a choir that skillfully performed all of the ordinaries of the Palestrina Missa Sine Nomine […]

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Fifth Sunday after Pentecost by Father Richard Cipolla, St. Mary Church, Nowalk, Ct, July 9,2017 And who is there to harm you if you are zealous for what is good? But even if you suffer anything for justice’s sake, blessed are you So have no fear of their fear and do not be troubled; but […]

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(Continued from  Part 1) To be sure, the last ten years have not been only a tale of a triumphant progress. For in practice, in many ways, the indult regime has continued. Traditional Catholicism remains extraneous to the mission and self-understanding of the “establishment” Catholic church. Regardless of what SP says, the Traditional Mass is […]

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Tomorrow will be the 10th anniversary of the promulgation of Summorum Pontificum. This Society was organized shortly thereafter; in September of 2007 we sponsored the first Mass pursuant to SP in the Archdiocese of New York. How many things have changed since then! We have since sponsored so many masses in New York, Connecticut, Brooklyn […]

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  St. Mary’s Church, Norwalk, CT is pleased to offer its tenth year of summer Chant Camp for children from July 31 to August 4.  David J. Hughes is the instructor.   There will be two levels:  beginning and intermediate.  No prior musical experience is required.  The schedule includes daily Mass and recreation.  For further […]

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All Saints Church, designed by James Renwick, is one of the subjects of Cardinal Dolan’s decrees. On Friday, June 30 Cardinal Dolan issued a series of decrees authorizing the relegation of closed churches to secular use – and authorizing their sale: Decrees of 6/30/17 Each decree follows the same form. Generic whereas clauses – which […]

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In case you hadn’t noticed, today the “Convocation of Catholic Leaders” ends in Orlando, Florida. At a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars, some 3,000 or more “leaders”  were transported to Orlando for the four-day conference. The Church bureaucracy and affiliated organizations bore the cost of this; judging by the hierarchy of the sponsors’ […]

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