I was surprised to learn today that Msgr. Eugene Clark had died on April 11, 2012. At the Month’s Mind Mass celebrated at his old parish of St. Agnes, Fr. George Rutler preached this moving sermon: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kathrynlopez/2012/05/remembering-a-priest-who-knew-christ-knew-the-cross/ Strange – we hear the surprising news of Monsignor Clark’s death just as we were reminiscing about the beginnings of […]

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This magnificent window is in the Church of the Ascension, W. 107th Street, New York St. Mary, Norwalk, CT Solemn High Mass at 5:30 p.m. Prelude: Majesté du Christ demandant sa gloire à son Père [Majesty of Christ praying that His Father should glorify Him] (from L’Ascension) (Messiaen) Missa Octavi toni (Orlando di Lasso, c.1532-1594) […]

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Hinter dem Großen Orient Freimaurerei und Revolutionsbewegungen By Lorenz Jäger (Karolingerverlag, Vienna/Leipzig, 2nd Revised Ed. 2010) It is a pity that no more than a handful of American Traditionalist Catholics have become acquainted with the esteemed Karolingerverlag of Austria. This publisher is an amazing source of works traditional, brilliant and arcane: from a picture book […]

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Our Lady of Vilna (or, as it was known in later years, Vilnius) was one of the most modest parishes on the island of Manhattan. It served a nationality, the Lithuanians, who never became as prominent or numerous here as they did in parts of the Midwest. And not too long after the completion of […]

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Saint Gabriel Parish in Stamford will celebrate the end of the Month of Our Lady with a Sung Mass on Thursday, May 31st, at 7:30 PM. Following the Mass will be the Litany of Our Lady with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament and May Crowning. Refreshments will follow in the Parish Meeting Room. Address: 914 […]

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From Father Greg Markey This past Thursday, April 19, 2012 marked in important day in my life. Many will recognize this date as the 7th anniversary of the election of His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, to be the 265th Vicar of Christ. I will always remember April 19, 2005, seeing Cardinal Ratzinger walk out onto […]

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Andrea Tornielli states it plainly: “It is about a deeper and more far reaching appeal, which should even bring into question that ecclesiastical world which is no longer in line with the papacy. Recalling the urgency of the proclamation of faith and of the need to analyse its content more carefully, should dissuade so many […]

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St. Mary 440 Grand Street By 1826 the two Catholic churches in New York City (St. Peter and (old) St. Patrick) were bursting at the seams (they also covered Brooklyn and Northern New Jersey). In that year a Presbyterian church was bought on Sheriff Street in what later was called the Lower East Side. This […]

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St. Malachy 239 West 49th Street Catholicism and the arts – a perennial topic once again in the limelight. Recent years have seen intensified efforts both global (initiatives of the Vatican and of Pope Benedict personally) and local (New York’s own Catholic Artists Society) to reestablish the bond between the Catholic faith and the arts. […]

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  Holy Trinity 213 West 82nd Street    The Upper West Side was particularly creative in the great age of Catholic Church building 1890-1920. Here, in what seemed to be the future center of wealth and culture of the city, the plans were bolder and the resources more lavish than elsewhere. St. John the Divine […]

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