The Catholic Sacred Music Project is excited to have its 2nd Choral Institute this June.  The CSMP Choral Institute offers emerging and established choral singers a singular environment that balances instruction, study, prayer, and conviviality in an atmosphere of collegial support and encouragement.  This unique and exceptional training opportunity will be hosted on the campus of Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. 

For more information about the application process for this program and the other summer programs, go to the Catholic Sacred Music Project website.

The German Catholic Church published statistics for the year 2025.

https://www.dbk.de/presse/aktuelles/meldung/kirchenstatistik-2025

Key numbers:

19.2M Catholics on paper (and the tax rolls)

Average % of participants in “divine services”: 6.8% (a small increase from the prior year – 6.6%)

Ordinations for the country: 25

Baptisms: 109,000:  religious “burials” : 203,000. (Both numbers are decreases from the prior year)

Church marriages: 19,500 (a decrease from 22,500 in the prior year)

First communions (152,000)and confirmations (105,000) are stable.

Number leaving the Church(i.e., legally exiting the tax rolls): 307,000 (a decrease from 321,600 in 2024).

Adult baptisms and returns to the Church show moderate increases but numbers are too small to be meaningful in relation to the above figures. 

(There are no figures on the percentage of foreigners among those ordained, attending Mass, etc. I suspect if such statistics were available the situation would appear even worse.)

it doesn’t look good – in fact, it’s positively disastrous.  Yet the German Church exercises a disproportionate influence on the Church worldwide because of the decisive role of money, politics and ideology in the Church today. Compare how several ”nuns” have ascended to positions of power in the Vatican while their own congregations have suffered dramatic declines.

This retreat will begin with a sung Traditional Mass.

Please contact Regina Pacis Academy to register: office@reginapacisacademy.org

Beginning Sunday, February 8th, Father John Perricone will begin celebrating the Traditional Latin Mass at Holy Trinity, 34 Maple Avenue in Hackensack on Sundays at 12:30 PM. He will also celebrate a Latin Mass at Holy Trinity for the Feast of the Presentation, February 2, 2026,  at 7:00 PM.

The last regularly scheduled Mass that Fr. Perricone will be celebrating at Our Lady of Sorrows in Jersey City will be on Sunday, February 1, 2026 at 9 am. There will be a festive convivium honoring Fr. Perricone after the Mass. 

After this Mass,  the Latin Mass Community of Jersey City will continue at the same place and the same time–Our Lady of Sorrows at 9 am. There will be  with a rotation of priests as had been the case before Fr. Perricone became the principal priest. Music will continue to be provided by Cantantes in Cordibus under the direction of Simone Ferraresi. 

On January 22 at 7 pm, the New York Purgatorial Society will sponsor a sung Requiem Mass (Dominican Rite) at St. Vincent Ferrer Church in New York City. Fr. Leo Camurati will be the celebrant.

Dr. Charles Weaver, music director at Regina Pacis Academy and St. Mary’s Church, Norwalk, will present a lecture on St. Hildegard. The lecture will be preceded by a demonstration class in Gregorian chant with the Regina Pacis middle school schola. The class will begin at 1:15 pm and the lecture at 2 pm.

RSVP: Please call the school if you plan to attend: (203) 642-4501.

Yesterday, Regina Pacis Academy had a beautiful Solemn Mass for the Feast of the Epiphany for the school community at St. Mary’s Church in Norwalk.

Distribution of the Epiphany chalk.