Syversen Touring has organized a pilgrimage to the Holy Land on April 23 to May 2 traveling with Rev. Canon Jean Marie Moreau of the Institute of Christ the King and  rector of St. Anthony of Padua Oratory, Orange, NJ.  The trip will include daily Mass in the Extraordinary Form.  There are still a few […]

Continue reading...

His Excellency Bishop Frank Caggiano will preach at a Solemn High Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite  on the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, February 11th, at 7:30 pm at St. Gabriel Church in Stamford.  A reception will follow in the parish hall.

Continue reading...

On Wednesday January 22, a Solemn High Mass was celebrated at the Shrine Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Manhattan, NY for the feast of Saint Vincent Pallotti, founder of the Pallottine Congregation which has ministered at this church since the parish’s founding. Following Mass, the relic of St. Vincent Pallotti was solemnly […]

Continue reading...

This Sunday, Feb. 2, is the Feast of the Presentation, or Candlemas. The following churches are offering the traditional Mass. St. Mary Church, Norwalk, Solemn Mass 9:30 am. Church of the Holy Innocents, Manhattan, NY “At Holy Innocents, we will be doing the Blessing and Distribution of Candles, as well as the procession inside the […]

Continue reading...

Papst im Widerspruch: Benedikt XVI und seine Kirche 2005-2013 By Alexander Kissler (Pattloch Verlag, Munich, 2013) Poor Pope Benedict! Every day, it seems we hear more about his inadequacies and “failures.” He was a “renaissance prince,” he was remote, aloof, rigid, “intellectual,” interested only in propounding dogma and seeing “that the rules are followed.” .And […]

Continue reading...

I offer a selection of scholia (glosses) on the current state of the Church by Nicolás Gómez Dávila, (1913-1994), that remarkable Columbian thinker. His “Scholia to an Implicit Text” (1979) is a principal monument of reactionary thought in the twentieth century. It is a vast compendium of aphorisms on faith, history, philosophy, literature, art and […]

Continue reading...

I believe this recent interview in the Cologne Stadt-Anzeiger has received insufficient attention in the English-speaking world: “Papal Confidante: Tebartz isn’t Returning” by Joachim Frank. While the German headline focusses on an issue of German ecclesiastical politics, I think its significance lies elsewhere. First, as the interviewer points out, Cardinal Maradiaga is reckoned as belonging […]

Continue reading...

Sermon for the Third Sunday after Epiphany From the Gospel: “Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word and my boy shall be healed.” Last week we heard the gospel from St John that recounts Jesus’ first miracle, the changing of water into wine. Today we […]

Continue reading...

At St. Mary’s Norwalk… The music, directed by Mr. David Hughes, included an improvisation on a theme of Mahler, the Missa in Illo Tempore by Claudio Monteverdi and two motets also by Monteverdi. The reception afterwards – after a festive toast: But th’ holy men of God such vessels are, As serve him up, who […]

Continue reading...

A small but intrepid group of pilgrims journeyed on a frigid evening on this past 22nd of January to the Pontifical Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in East Harlem to celebrate the feast of St. Vincent Pallotti, founder of the Pallotine Order that staffs the parish and also to pray for an end […]

Continue reading...