The story that will not go away…. I regret that technical, personal and health reasons have distracted us from the day to day coverage of the Holy Innocents story – but here is a collection of the most relevant articles. First, from the August 10 bulletin of Holy Innocents Church: “CHURCHES REALIGNMENT UPDATE The Making […]

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Photos of the mass at St. Cecilia’s, Brooklyn, offered by Fr. Raymond Flores on the feast of the Transfiguration. Photos courtesy of Brian Hilley.

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Ceiling of Transfiguration Church, Chinatown, New York Connecticut: St. Stanislaus Church, New Haven Low Mass at 5:30 PM. St. Mary’s Church, 669 West Avenue, Norwalk 5:30 Solemn High Mass and closing of the 40 Hours Devotion New Jersey: St Anthony of Padua Church, 330 Sixth Street, Jersey City Mass at 7PM New York: Church of […]

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The TLM community of Jersey City has begun a newsletter “Extraordinary Community News.” Here is the first issue.

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Photo from the website of St. Joseph’s Co-Cathedral The New York Times reports on the creation of a second cathedral (or”co-cathedral”) for the Diocese of Brooklyn: “Amid criticism, a Changing Brooklyn gets a Second Cathedral” The first cathedral, St. James, is the first Catholic parish church in the diocese of Brooklyn. Despite its great population, […]

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The First Friday Mass at St. Stanislaus Church in New Haven has a new time: 8:00am. This Friday, August 1, is First Friday, and the TLM will be offered at 8:00.

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This week Wednesday, July 30th at 6 PM, there will be a Solemn Votive Mass of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel at the Church of the Holy Innocents

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Holy Name of Jesus West 96th Street (and Amsterdam) Heading west from Central Park on West 96th Street we leave the flourishing luxury of Central Park West and soon pass building after building the appearance of which indicates that this area wasn’t so nice at all in the not-too-distant past. As we proceed, we seem […]

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It’s amazing! First Amy Welbrorn announces her satisfaction with a conservative Novus Ordo liturgy at a parish that – gasp! – has also celebrated the TLM for many years now. Then William Oddie proclaims his agreement with the view that the best way of showing loyalty to the papacy nowadays is silence. Now George Weigel […]

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The “Francis Effect” – we often hear assertions that, in contrast to the oppressive regime of his benighted predecessor, under Francis the Catholic Church has moved into a new era of light and life. On closer inspection, much of ballyhoo emanates from the expectations of the secular media – and the non-practicing Catholic laity – […]

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