Jesuit educational institutions have long publicized their Jesuit – not necessarily their Catholic – values. Fordham University surely offers a unique perspective on these values. As Tania Tetlow, the new president of Fordham, (“the first layperson and woman to lead the university”) explains in an article in Outreach: An LGBTQ Catholic Resource: I come to […]

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18 Dec

2022

The Fourth Sunday of Advent

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Uncategorized

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17 Dec

2022

Ember Saturday at St. Roch Church, Greenwich

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Masses

Father Peter Lenox celebrated a Missa Cantata today for Ember Saturday at St. Roch Church in Greenwich. This ancient Mass contains five Old Testament prophecies, an epistle and a Gospel

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13 Dec

2022

Happy St. Lucy’s Day!

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Photos

Reliquary in the Cathedral of Syracuse, Italy – her home town. (Above and below) Closer to home, the epic neo-baroque decoration of the Church of St. Lucy, Newark, NJ. (For even more images from St. Lucy’s Church, see our report.) (Above and below) Finally, tragically, two statues from the now-shuttered parish of St. Lucy in […]

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12 Dec

2022

Advent Events Coming Up This Weekend

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in Events

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10 Dec

2022

The End of the Churches II: Catholic “Relics”

Posted by Stuart Chessman Published in The Churches of New York

Last year The New York Times featured an article on the Archdiocese’s disposition of the contents of closed New York Churches: Gill, John Freeman, “These Churches Have Been Closed, but Their Artifacts Live On,” Tne New York Times, December 24, 2021 (1) IN this report we encounter “artifacts” (the reporter’s term) from several churches on […]

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10 Dec

2022