The Roman Forum

31^st Annual New York City Church History Program(2022-2023) 

The Center Cannot Hold:A “Hermeneutic of Continuity”? Or “the Opiate of the Church”? (1978-2013) 

Lecturer: John C. Rao, D. Phil. (Oxford University)Chairman, The Roman Forum

 September 11:  A Deeply Troubled Church in a Collapsing Postwar Order

September 25:  Here Today—Gone Tomorrow

October 9:        A Call for Help From “the Christ Among Nations”

October 16:      Affirming the Faith—While Dismantling the Temple

November 13:  Sailing to Byzantium on “the Opiate of the Popes”

November 20:  The End of Soviet Communism and the New Liberation Theologies:     Marxist, Neo-Liberal, and Neo-Conservative

December 11:   The New World Order on Steroids

December 18:   Our Future Lies in Our Past: Traditionalism—1978-1990s

January 8:         The Year 2000—Ecumenism and Millenarianism

January 22:       The Hermeneutici and the Conservative Dilemma

February 5:       The New World Order’s Culture of Death

February 12:     How Goes the Internal Mission?

February 26:     How Goes the External Mission?

March 5:           Habemus Papam!!

March 26:         Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?

April 2:             The Horror!! The Horror!!

April 16:           The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

May 7:              My End is My Beginning                             

Sundays at 2:30 P.M, Most Holy Redeemer Church, East 3^rd Street Between Avenues A & B

Wine & Cheese Reception: $15.00 

N.B.— Audiotapes of all lectures will be posted on the Roman Forum Church History Lecture stream on SoundCloud.

As the summer comes to an end, we look forward to Fr. John Perricone’s Baltimore Catechism Classes that will be presented in three different venues:.

• Our Lady of Victories Church Hall in Harrington Park, NJ
• Corpus Christi Church in South River, NJ
• St. Josaphat Parish Hall in Bayside Queens.

Join us on Saturday September 17, 2022 at 9 AM for the National Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage.

We will mark the 15th anniversary of Benedict XVI’s liberation of the Traditional Latin Mass, and make a public act of sorrow/support of what we will be losing as the Diocese of Arlington and Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. impose devastating new restrictions on the celebration of the TLM.

The Arlington Diocese restrictions go into effect on September 8, while the Washington Archdiocese’s draconian implementation of the papal decree starts 13 days later on the 21st.

We will walk from the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington to the Cathedral of St. Matthew in DC (about a two hour walk). Feel free to bring appropriate signs and banners. 

The pilgrimage will begin at 9 AM on Saturday, September 17 at the Cathedral of Saint Thomas More in Arlington, will end when we reach St. Matthew’s Cathedral in DC, and should take about two hours. For updates, we now have an instagram, twitter, and Facebook page (all of which can be found @tlmpilgrimage on the respective apps), and we now have a website being tlmpilgrimage.com. Please share, as we want this to be as large as possible for such an occasion.

Beginning this Friday, August 5, the First Friday of the month, a group will be meeting at St. Mary’s Church, Norwalk, CT, to attend  the 8 am Traditional Mass and  pray the Rosary for the continuation of the Traditional Mass in the Diocese of Bridgeport,  in our nation, and in the Church worldwide.    

We will be praying in particular for Bishop Caggiano, who has so far recognized and appreciated the vitality of Latin Mass communities in the Diocese. But many bishops are now prohibiting Traditional Masses, either drastically cutting down or eliminating them completely.

It is urgent right now to pray that God will protect our access to the Traditional Mass and  bless our priests who celebrate the Traditional Mass.  

Please join us by attending the 8 am Traditional Mass at St. Mary’s Norwalk every Friday in August, starting this Friday, and stay for recitation of the Holy Rosary.  If you cannot be there,  consider uniting yourself in prayer.

Please invite your friends and family.

On a related note, this Novena to Blessed Michael McGivney is circulating: