Les Sept Sacrements : d’Hier à Aujourd’hui (A brief critical examination of the New Rituals) Fr. Claude Barthe Preface by Bishop Athanasius Schneider (Contretemps, Versailles, 2025) 98 pp. (in French) Father Claude Barthe always can be relied on for outstanding contributions to the self-understanding of the traditionalist cause. The battle over Catholic tradition has up […]

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The Facade of Notre Dame seen later in the morning, after our visit. How has the restoration of the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris fared? In February we made a visit to find out. By arriving at opening time, we mostly avoided standing in line. Just an hour or so later, a queue wound […]

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Durch Habsburgs Lande Ronald Friedrich Schwarzer Second, expanded Edition 2025 Karolinger Verlag (Vienna, Leipzig) 155 pp. (in German) In the foreword to Through the Lands of Habsburg Lothar Höbelt describes the author, Ronald Friedrich Schwarzer, as a well-known “character”  in Vienna. Ronald Schwarzer, our author, was born in 1965 – just outside “Boomer land.” In his “day job,” he […]

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Towards Dawn: Essays in Hopefulness 2025 Word on Fire, Elk Grove Village, IL 141 pages I have been hearing all kinds of good things about Bishop Eric Varden in recent years. A Trappist monk who became the Bishop of Trondheim in his native Norway, he has appeared as an advocate of orthodoxy and sensibility in […]

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Here are some churches in the area that are offering special Masses for the Feast of St. Joseph this Thursday, March 19. St. Mary Church, Norwalk, CT; 9:15 am Missa Cantata (organized by Regina Pacis Academy); 12:10 pm low Mass; and 7 pm Missa Cantata Georgetown Oratory, Redding, CT 6 pm Sts. Cyril and Methodius […]

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The Georgetown Oratory in Redding, CT will offer traditional Masses at 8:30 am and 6 pm tomorrow, March 17 for the Feast of St. Patrick.

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The Catholic Sacred Music Project is excited to have its 2nd Choral Institute this June.  The CSMP Choral Institute offers emerging and established choral singers a singular environment that balances instruction, study, prayer, and conviviality in an atmosphere of collegial support and encouragement.  This unique and exceptional training opportunity will be hosted on the campus of […]

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The German Catholic Church published statistics for the year 2025. https://www.dbk.de/presse/aktuelles/meldung/kirchenstatistik-2025 Key numbers: 19.2M Catholics on paper (and the tax rolls) Average % of participants in “divine services”: 6.8% (a small increase from the prior year – 6.6%) Ordinations for the country: 25 Baptisms: 109,000:  religious “burials” : 203,000. (Both numbers are decreases from the […]

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