Cologne Cathedral (and tourists). To see this view an admission ticket is now required. You may have heard that Cologne cathedral, the largest and most prominent Catholic church in Germany, has introduced an admission charge as of July 1.  Despite the funding available to the German Catholic Church, the cathedral has been running an increasing deficit […]

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Due to travel we regettably could not be present at the Traditional pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in East Harlem last Saturday. We have covered this pilgrimage since its inception in 2012. For the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel had become dear to CatholicTraditionalists. Did they somehow sense […]

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Starting this Sunday, July 5, there will be a regularly scheduled Low Mass at 7:30 am at the Georgetown Oratory of the Sacred Heart in Redding, CT. This is in addition to the Missa Cantata every Sunday at noon.

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Dutilliet, Abbe Henri. Little Liturgical Catechism.  With a foreword by Joris-Karl Huysmans (Os Justi Press, Lincoln NE, 2026) A Benedictine Oblate, Lumen Christi: Defending the Use of the pre-1955 Roman Rite. With a foreword by Peter Kwasniewski (Os Justi,  2025) The Masses of Holy Week & Tenebrae: Latin-English texts for the pre-1955 Palm Sunday, Tenebrae & Sacred Triduum (Os Justi, 2025) […]

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Saint Francis Xavier’s, previously described,  has been in the hands of the Jesuits since its foundation in the 1840s. Other churches in Manhattan that have remained under the control of the same religious order from their origins include: Saint Ignatius Loyola (after a very early archdiocesan phase!) (also the Jesuits), Saint Paul the Apostle (Paulists), Our Lady […]

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It was reported that an exhibition (“Twilight of the Idols”) that had been scheduled for the Sheen Center had been cancelled at the last minute and relocated to Saint Francis Xavier parish. The artist in question, Fr. Nick Leeper SJ, is a member of the Jesuit community there and a teacher at Xavier high school next door. I […]

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(Above) An engraving of a censer by Martin Schongauer (15th century). A most unusual exhibition can be seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art until July 19th. It displays medieval and early renaissance designs for works of Gothic architecture and art. Many of these architectural drawings are actual working documents for the creators of the […]

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It intrigued me to discover several years ago that Ida Görres had written a review of Dietrich von Hildebrand’s Trojan Horse in the City of God. 1)  Her review of the Trojan Horse was published in Erbe und Auftrag (“Heritage and Mission”),  a somewhat obscure Benedictine publication.  Nevertheless, it is prominently described in the collection of correspondence between Ida Görres and Paulus […]

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CHANT CAMPAugust 2026 • St. Mary’s, Norwalk Monday, August 10–Friday, August 149:15 a.m.–1:15 p.m. Learn to read and sing Gregorian chant and great sacred polyphony • Enjoy fun and fellowship • Lift your voice to the glory of God! The Chant Camp scholars will sing a Missa cantata daily at 12:10 p.m., starting on Tuesday and ending […]

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Fr. Joseph Marie Falciano, FSSP, celebrated a traditional Solemn Mass last evening at St. Mary’s Church in Norwalk. Having been ordained to the priesthood on May 28, Fr. Falciano was celebrating his first Mass in his former parish. After Mass he offered his first priestly blessing to each of the faithful. This Mass and the […]

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