Ash Wednesday is on March 5. The following churches will offer traditional Masses. If you know of any Traditional Masses that are not on this schedule, please notify us. Connecticut St. Mary Church, Norwalk, 8 am and 7 pm (Nota bene: 12:10 pm Mass is Novus Ordo on this day) The Georgetown Oratory of the […]

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I recently attended vespers performed by the School of Sacred Music in New York City . It was part of their current series “Midwinter Light” (through March 3). Like several of their other performances, the evening was cosponsored by another organization active in the arts, in this case, an art gallery/Catholic arts collective: Arthouse 2B […]

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Yesterday afternoon, an audience was treated to a delightful concert given by talented young musicians from the Julliard School. This concert featured baroque string music of Italian and British composers in the British Isles. The musicians were Lydia Becker on baroque violin, Amanda Barenek on triple harp, and Nathan Frisco on baroque cello. In talking […]

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“Brief über die KIrche” Die Kontroverse um Ida Friederike Görres’ Aufsatz – ein Dokumentationsband A Letter on the Church The Controversy surrounding the Essay by Ida Friederike Görres – a Documentary Collection. Paraiso, Jean-Yves (Editor) (2005 Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar,  Vienna) Last year I wrote a review of the 1951 book The Church in the Flesh of Ida Friederike […]

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I have been meaning for a long time (two years to be precise!) to provide an updated report on where we think the Church stands and what the Society of St. Hugh of Cluny intends to do in the upcoming year. That task kept being deferred. But I think I now owe you are an […]

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Living in Wonder: Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Age by Rod Dreher Zondervan Books, Grand Rapids, 2024 Rod Dreher, the conservative political analyst and cultural critic, now lives in Hungary – one center of the struggle against globalism. Dreher published last year Living in Wonder, the third in a series of commentaries on the social […]

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