19 Feb
2023
18 Feb
2023
From the Our Old House Facebook Page (2/18/2023): “We recently closed on this 1890 Catholic Church that we plan to renovate into our dream home! We plan to go all out with the gothic style and want to incorporate a medieval theme as well. It’s about 4000sqft and we are going to keep it an […]
17 Feb
2023
We read in the Forum Catholique that Alessandro Gnocchi has joined the Russian Orthodox Church. Actually, he seems to have taken this step in 2019, but more recently, breaking what appears to have been a long silence, he has published a book on the subject (which I hope to read soon). Readers may recall that […]
17 Feb
2023
Sandro Magister reports on the ever-growing problem of using Catholic churches – once the clergy and faithful are gone: Closed Churches. Two Criteria for Their Best Reuse Here are excepts with my commentary. More than attacks, thousands of churches in Europe suffer from abandonment. With ever fewer Catholics at Mass, they find themselves empty. And […]
16 Feb
2023
(Above) The Interior of the Church of Notre Dame (2008) We have now received more detailed information about what is going on near Columbia University. Columbia University, one of the premiere institutions among the Ivies, now has a proper Catholic center. The Thomas Merton Institute for Catholic Life had a “soft opening” at the upper […]
16 Feb
2023
16 Feb
2023
Connecticut St. Mary Church, Norwalk, 8 am and 7 pm. Sts. Cyril and Methodius Oratory, Bridgeport, 7:45 am, 6 pm St. Stanislaus Church, New Haven, 5:30 pm St. Patrick Oratory, Waterbury, 8 am and 6 pm New York Our Lady of Mount Carmel Shrine, 7 AM Low Mass, 745 AM Low Mass, 7 PM Missa […]
9 Feb
2023
Crepusculo: Lettere dalla Crisi della Chiesa (Twilight: Letters from the Crisis of the Church) By Aurelio Porfiri and Aldo Maria Valli Chorabooks, Hong Kong, 2022 Aurelio Porfiri and Aldo Maria Valli have now given us three short books that together represent a profound series of reflections on the state of the Church today. I have already […]
8 Feb
2023
8 Feb
2023