Demolition of Mary Help of Christians begins (Photo from Ginsburg’s old apartment by Daniel Maurer) No sooner had we reported on the impending fate of Mary Help of Christians in New York than the scaffolding goes up to implement the razing of the church. One very unlikely source, however, was impressed by the role of […]

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Jean Madiran, perhaps the most esteemed leader of French Traditional Catholicism, died yesterday at 93 years of age. As is always the case in France, his ideas on things ecclesiastical were linked with strongly held political positions – he was an ancient disciple of Charles Maurras! Yet this is not weakness, but strength – the […]

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From Ross Douthat in the New York Times… E.g., regarding Francis’ message of “forgiveness” for his first, scandalous appointee: “Christianity and Catholicism insist that no sin is is beyond forgiveness, and that true repentance washes away even the worst stain. But for people in positions of ecclesiastical authority, the obligation to forgive and forget is […]

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Once upon a time, that impeccably influential institution, the Brompton Oratory, held a liturgical congress which would be crowned by the special celebration of a Solemn High Mass. Into the sublime sacristy enter the sacred ministers: an Italian Jesuit, an American Jesuit, and a Jesuit scholastic. Busy polishing a thurible, the surly sexton stops, looks […]

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At NYU – it’s quite a change for a chaplaincy housed once upon a time in one of the earliest totally modern buildings in the Archdiocese – and one of the ugliest.

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A new twist for youth masses. The pilgrimage does not appear to have been a hit – there seem to be as many celebrants and photographers as “youth” present. (Thanks to le Forum Catholique)

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http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1350567?eng=y The use of the Traditional mass prohibited to the Friars of the Immaculate Conception….by Rome. UPDATE: We should add a few words as to why this action has such exceptional significance. Here in Connecticut supporters of the Latin Mass first may have encountered the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate (“FFI”) as frequent visitors to […]

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Church in Nova Scotia, 2005 (above and Below) Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Newark, 2013

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The ancient Greeks had Odysseus; Medievals had Arthur; Americans have Superman. In celebration of the seventy fifth anniversary of the Last Son of Krypton this year a major cinematic commercial, I mean, presentation was released entitled “Man of Steel”. The title is amazingly appropriate as steel is an alloy and a major thematic undercurrent regards […]

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St Cecelia – and feathered friends. St. Cecilia 112 – 120 East 106th Street It is a strange and wondrous vision: a vast red brick complex rises amid the colorless, nondescript and frequently decrepit high- and low-rise streetscape of Spanish Harlem, broken only here and there by a row, somehow intact, of old townhouses. The […]

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