“All over the country, buildings formerly owned by the Catholic Church are being repurposed.” “The church’s divestment of buildings has been going on for a decade. Sometimes, there’s pushback from the parishes where divestment occurs, which in many cases supported the development and maintenance of those properties. NPQ would love to hear how other buildings […]

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Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus 457 West 51st Street.   Hell’s Kitchen – a legendary name in New York City!  It designates the West Side from about West 29th street all the way up to around West 59th – historically rough, industrial, with more than its share of crime and not at all […]

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  The Old Altar: “God forgive me, but I hope the ones responsible for that altar are still in purgatory.” The “new” Altar – from a destroyed church. PHOTOS: ANDREW THEODORAKIS/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS   The restoration of a Brooklyn church…. And an Article in the New York Daily News about it. We rejoice at […]

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This Mass have been cancelled due to inclement weather: Missa Cantata for the Feast of Saint Agnes on Tuesday, Jan 21st at 7:30 in the evening. Saint Gabriel Church 914 Newfield Avenue Stamford, Connecticut

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Joseph Tapley Dougherty was born in Missouri in 1898; later he attended medical school at the University of Nebraska, where he was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. The early 1930s found him pursuing another vocation in Hollywood as a voice actor. In the employ of the Warner Brothers animation studio, Dougherty originated […]

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The Art of the Beautiful series returns on Saturday, January 25th at 7:30 pm, with Professor Anthony Esolen’s presentation – Love and Artistic Genesis. Professor Esolen teaches Renaissance English Literature and the Development of Western Civilization at Providence College in Rhode Island.    A senior editor for Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity, he writes regularly for Touchstone, First Things, […]

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For those unable to attend the March for Life in Washington next Wednesday, January 22nd, there will be a pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in East Harlem at 7:pm to pray for the unborn at a Solemn Mass for the Feast of St. Vincent Pallotti, founder of the Pallotine Fathers, […]

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The Theology Forum of Sleepy Hollow is sponsoring a lecture by Dr. E. Michael Jones entitled: “Catholic Social Teaching in Relation to Capitalism and Socialism,” Friday, January 24 at 7 pm. The lecture will be held in the auditorium of Immaculate Conception Church, Sleepy Hollow, NY. Light fare and refreshments will be served from 6:30 […]

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The Knights Hospitaller in the Levant, c.1070-1309 Jonathan Riley-Smith Palgrave MacMillan 2012 No one has done more to clarify our understanding of the Crusades than Jonathan Riley–Smith. From Sir Walter Scott to Steven Runciman to (on a semi-literate level) James Michener, a modern myth was cultivated of barbaric, destructive fanatical Crusaders – always contrasted with […]

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Msgr Ignacio Barreiro, since 1998 Executive Director of the Rome office of Human Life International, will be joining the parish of St. Mary, Norwalk, CT as parochial vicar(curate) in March. Father Barreiro has been active in the pro-life and Traditional Mass apostolates for many years. Fro further biographical information see HERE.

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