By John Lamont   (Lecture given in New York on Friday, April 4, 2014)   The terrible crimes committed against minors by Catholic priests and religious have constituted a dreadful crisis for the Catholic Church over a period of many years. There is however one aspect of this crisis that has not attracted all the […]

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Eamon Duffy, that is – at George Weigel’s expense: “Ecstatic liberals hailed the return of the spirit of Vatican II, while agitated conservatives mounted damage limitation exercises. George Weigel, biographer and confidante of John Paul II, insisted that Evangelii Gaudium demonstrated a “seamless continuity” between the attitudes and emphases of John Paul II, Benedict XVI […]

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Church of Saint Jean Baptiste 184 East 76th Street and Lexington Avenue “Ethnic parishes” are in bad repute with the Archdiocese nowadays. The creation in earlier times of separate churches for the Italians, the Slavic peoples, the Germans etc. is held responsible for the alleged surplus of Catholic churches in New York today. So the […]

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Raymond Cardinal Burke, Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura at the Vatican, will be coming to St. Mary Church to offer the monthly pro-life extraordinary FormMass on Saturday May 10 at 9:00 am.  Cardinal Burke helped St. Mary Church in its fundraising efforts last year for the renovation of the church.  He […]

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The Creation by Hildreth Meiere. All from the Church of St.Bartholomew, New York. “Hildreth Meiere – Forgotten Artist” Celia McGee of the New York Times writes about a new book on the works of Hildreth Meiere – and calls our attention to a walking tour of some of her work in New York scheduled for […]

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A group of pilgrims accompanied Canon Jean Marie Moreau of Oratory of St. Anthony of Padua in West Orange, NY, on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land from April 23 to May 2. We are indebted to Joanne O’Beirne for sending us these beautiful photos. Mount of Beatitudes Church of the Condemnation, Jerusalem Readings at […]

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The Catholic Artists Society succeeded in filling the basilica of St Patrick’s old Cathedral for their annual mass – a Solemn High Mass in the Extraordinary Form offered fro the intentions of the members of the Catholic Artists Society and for the salvation of all artists. Fr. Brian Taylor was the celebrant and the pastor […]

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Today at St. Mary’s Church Norwalk, CT, ten children received Our Lord for the first time in Holy Communion during the 9:30 am Solemn High Mass. Every year first communicants are given the option of receiving First Holy Communion during the Extraordinary Form Mass or the Novus Ordo Mass. A small but growing percentage are […]

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At the Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican divinely debated among the forgathered Fathers was the tantalizing topic of Collegiality, the intrepid idea that, as sacred successors of the terrific Twelve, the Bishops actually have some semblance of a say in reliably and religiously running the Church of God and are not simply petulant paper […]

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