9 Sep

2014

A Revival of Sacred Catholic Architecture — in the South?

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(above) Mother Angelica’s Blessed Sacrament Shrine. An interesting article. See also HERE from Crisis magazine. (For someone like myself, unfamiliar with EWTN and the Blessed Sacrament Shrine, it seems odd to have what appears to be a beautiful and elaborate rood screen – with the “Vatican II” altar before it. But I don’t mean to […]

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9 Sep

2014

And while we are on the subject of Modern Catholic “Art”…

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From our own Fairfield County Catholic: “Fr. John B. Giuliani, a major American artist and priest of the Diocese of Bridgeport, will be featured next week in an exhibit at the Gallery of Contemporary Sacred Art in the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome.” Fr. Giuliani was ordained in 1960. “In 1977, with […]

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9 Sep

2014

Creepy!

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A “masterpiece” of new Catholic figurative art – the official “iconic image” for the 2015 World Meeting of Families blessed by Archbishop Chaput on September 7. I very much doubt this kind of art will raise the image of the “Conciliar Church” as a patron of art or attract anyone outside the ranks of the […]

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2 Sep

2014

Holy Innocents Church, Feast of St. Pius X

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From Holy Innocents Church, Manhattan: Tomorrow, Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014 will be the Feast of Pope St. Pius X. At Holy Innocents, we will have a Sung Mass (Missa cantata) at 6pm. As a special feature, there will be a reporter from CBS interactive to film the Mass and the sermon. This reporter would like […]

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1 Sep

2014

The Roman Forum: 2014/15 Church History Program

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The Roman Forum Church History Program 2014-2015 New York City War in Heaven and the City of Man: Laying the Groundwork for a Garden of Earthly Delights 1629-1689 Lecturer: John Rao, D. Phil., Oxford University Associate Professor of History, St. John’s University September 7—-Stairways to Heaven: The Baroque Cultural Environment September 21– Popes, Bishops, Religious, […]

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1 Sep

2014

Mass at St. Mary’s Greenwich for the Feast of the Holy Name of Mary

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Sung Mass for the Feast of the Holy Name of Mary on Friday, Sept 12, 2014 at St. Mary Church in Greenwich, CT at 7:30 in the evening. (Above) Karlskirche Vienna. (This feast was raised to a universal feast of the Roman rite after the defeat of the Turks by Charles of Lorraine (actually the […]

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26 Aug

2014

Our Saviour’s

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We dropped in at Our Saviour’s this afternoon to see what was going on for ourselves. Regrettably I have no new information to convey. I couldn’t find a statement by Fr. Robbins explaining his actions in the now empty cases for literature in the vestibule. But, all too obviously, some of Ken Woo’s paintings have […]

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25 Aug

2014

Being Catholic: it’s a “Fool Time Job”

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We have to thank our friends at “Le Forum Catholique” – with their fine sense of language and nuance they have hit on the most remarkably exact description of being Catholic in the post-conciliar era that I have ever found: “Etre catholique c’est du boulot. Fool time job. Vous pouvez me croire.” SOURCE And that […]

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17 Aug

2014