Fr. Aaron Huberfeld will offer his first Solemn High Mass in the United States on Sunday August 22 at 9:30 A.M at St. Mary’s Church, Norwalk CT. After Mass he will give his priestly blessing to those present. Fr. (Canon) Huberfeld was born in Ridgefield, CT and graduated from the Ridgefield HS. He attended Boston […]

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The harbor of Victoria, British Columbia, is a scene of crowded, noisy tourism in the summer. But if the visitor walks but a few blocks from the waterfront, he finds an iron gate with the inscription “St. Ann’s Academy.” It leads into a secluded, dilapidated park. On either side stand imposing institutional buildings connected by […]

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On August 7 there appreared in L’Osservatore Romano an article by Lucetta Scaraffia stating a “theological” case for female altar servers. What follows is a translation of that article and a response by Father Richard Cipolla. An Experience to Educate in the Faith At the school of altar servers In the very old and very […]

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The following parishes will offer the Mass in the Extraordinary Form for the Feast of the Assumption on Sunday, August 15. If any of our readers know of another Mass in the area, please let us know. ConnecticutSt. Mary Church, Norwalk, Solemn Mass at 9:30 a.m.Music will include Palestrina’s Missa Assumpta est Maria, motets by […]

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By Ralph Adams Cram (Boston, 1918 – with Ten Years After) St. John the Divine, New York St. John the Divine, New York (including images of St. Ignatius Loyola and St. Theresa!) St. John the Divine, New York “In a way the eleventh century may be considered one of the most marvelous centuries in all […]

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We received news today that the noted Catholic intellectual Thomas Molnar has died: Obituary His name may not mean much to the current generation. Yet, in the early 60’s he was ranked as one of the three or four key conservative Catholic thinkers in the US: along with Eric von Kuehnelt-Leddihn and John Lukacs (what […]

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It may be surprising to many to find in the middle of Moscow a Russian Orthodox Church dedicated to “St Clement Pope of Rome” – but so it is. In fact, the !st Century martyr St. Clement is well known in Russia – after all, didn’t he die in exile in the Crimea? Thus, a […]

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Sermon for the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, 26 June 2010 Last Thursday we celebrated one of the great feasts of the Church. In the traditional calendar it is a first class feast. One can’t get much more first class than first class. In the Novus Ordo calendar it is a solemnity, the highest ranking of […]

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The third in a series of interviews this year,in which Martin Mosebach defends the Pope and the Catholic Church against the continuing, relentless attacks as well as stating a short “apologia” for Traditionalism. An interview with Martin Mosebach by Matthias Drobinski and Tobias Haberl “Sueddeutsche Zeitung Magazin” 5/16/2010, translated for this blog by Stuart Chessman […]

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There will be Solemn Mass and Benediction for the Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord on Thursday, July 1st at 6 PM, at the Church of the Holy Innocents,Manhattan (37th Street between Broadway and 7th Avenue).

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