Last year yet another parish celebrated its last mass: Mary Help of Christians. 1) Now this was a small, originally Italian ethnic parish erected in 1908. It was in the care of the Salesians. The present church was built in 1918. The architect, Nicholas Serracino, was a prolific builder of churches in a baroque, beaux-arts […]

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The famous Abbey of Cluny – once the largest church in the West. We are grateful that a reader at Le Forum Catholique has compiled materials on St Hugh of Cluny HERE -in French, of course! And, as we previously may have mentioned, the parish with the name of our patron in Philadelphia is closing […]

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Concluding this week’s liturgies in honor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel was this Solemn High mass celebrated this morning at Our Lady of Mount Carmel shrine in New York.

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In the multilingual metropolitan microcosm of the Lower East Side of youthful yore endearing expressions of enthusiasm were euphemistically engendered in “French”. This boyhood recollection came to mind as one came across a press blurb (obviously written by a feverish Francophile) from Yale University Press announcing a centennial edition of literary modernist Marcel Proust’s most […]

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The Master of the Della Rovere Missals – Mass with a Pope in attendance (The Morgan Library) Illuminating Faith: The Eucharist in Medieval Life and Art Morgan Library and Museum (Until September 2) The Morgan library has unlocked many of the masterpieces from its store of illuminated manuscripts to tell for us the story of […]

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Some photographs of the Pontifical Mass at the faldstool celebrated today by His Excellency, Arthur Serratelli, Bishop of Paterson, New Jersey at the church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Newark New Jersey. Msgr. Joseph Ambrosio, the pastor of the church was assistant priest, Deacon Trevor Fernandes was the deacon, and Damian Zablocki was subdeacon. […]

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A most important interview! Froa discussion of the interview see HERE.

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St. Catherine of Genoa 506 West 153rd Street Just a year earlier than his fairy-tale masterpiece of Our Lady of Good Counsel on East 90th Street (built 1890-92), architect Thomas Poole had built a second, very similar Catholic church on the West Side – but much further north. St Catherine of Genoa church offers us […]

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Our Lady of Good Counsel 230 East 90th Street By 1890 the Catholic population of New York continued to explode. The relentless march of the city– East Side, West Side – northward on Manhattan Island continued as well. For the new developments more parishes were needed and ever more magnificent churches. It was the golden […]

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  ( The Traditional feast day of St Benedict is March 21 – so perhaps the otherwise ever reliable Mr. Screwtape is moving on his own initiative to the mutual enrichment of the two forms of the Roman rite – or has gotten his calendars mixed up. However, there was apparently recognized at least in […]

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