For the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer will offer a Dominican Rite Mass on Wednesday, March 7 at 7 pm.

From the website of St Ignatius Loyola parish, New York:

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Cardinal John Ribat KBE, M.S.C., of Papua New Guinea will discuss the climate change crisis that is affecting the Oceania region. Rising sea levels are washing away islands, putting the region’s very survival and existence at stake.

So one of Pope Francis’s recent cardinals – from the periphery – comes to one of the wealthiest parishes in the country to share with the rich his expertise on climate change. All stage-managed by the Jesuits, of course.

A most revealing commentary on what is actually going on in Francis-land.

Tonight, Monday, February 26, 2018, there will be a Solemn Requiem Mass and Absolution at the Catafalque to mark the 100th Anniversary of the Happy Valley Racecourse Fire in Hong Kong at which 670 people perished.

The Mass is at the Pontifical Shrine of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in New York City at 7:30 PM.

Following Mass, the Sacred Ministers will change from black to violet vestments and lead the choir and people in a procession throughout the Church singing a Solemn Litany of the Saints to beseech our Lady of Mt. Carmel and the Communion of Saints to intercede for the persecuted Church in China and protect it against the attacks it faces today.

At the Requiem Mass, the choir will sing the Missa pro defunctis for six voices by Manuel Cardoso (1566-1650).

The Mass is being sponsored by a family that lost five members in the tragedy.

The Jersey Shore has long been a barren desert for the Traditional Latin Mass. This is slowly changing. The Traditional Latin Mass is returning this Lent to Holy Innocents Church in Neptune, New Jersey, after its enthusiastic reception at the parish this past Advent.

Special Masses for the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter in Connecticut, New York and New Jersey . . .

At St. Mary Church, Greenwich, CT, a traditional Mass will be offered on Thursday, February 22 at 7:30 pm, for the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter.

It’s nice to hear that the Catholic Herald will be opening an American edition. Certainly with Damian Thompson’s involvement the UK original has improved by leaps and bounds. A recent article in the American Conservative, however,  by Michael Warren Davis, billed as the “US editor of the Catholic Herald,”  reaises grave doubts about the direction of the new publication.

Mr Davis, in Joe Sobran, Recovered from the Ashes, indeed has the merit of calling attention to a great commentator whose writings on social topics, especially abortion, are becoming more relevant by the day. But in fact the bulk of this article is a long diatribe against the “antisemite” Sobran – indeed, “there can be no posthumous rehabilitation for the man himself.”  We should embrace the ideas of Sobran, says Davis, while condemning the man. So Davis advocates a rediscovery of “Sobranism” without Sobran just like, after the alleged “scandal” of Charlottesville,  “conservatives” divorced  “Trumpism” from Trump. A view which entirely accords with the party line of  Mr Dreher and company at the American Conservative – where one today finds, with the exception of the contributions of Pat Buchanan, only endless posts denouncing Trump. It is instructive to see how “conservatives ” once more explicitly endorse the tactics of the  left establishment –   the ostracism and  damnatio memoriae of opponents –  just as William F. Buckley and the “pro-life” Human Life Review practiced  them in Sobran’s own day.

But. Mr Davis adds, there is one further great merit of the thought of Sobran: it is a “small-c Catholic” “best defense” against the Catholic “integralism”  of Brent Bozell and the Triumph magazine “crowd.”   You see, Joe Sobran was allegedly one of the few who “addressed the rise of neo-intgralism ” and “have engaged with integralism on dogmatic grounds.”  Amazing, is it not, that the supposedly exorcised ghost of a long-dead Catholic publication still represents a kind of ultimate adversary for Mr Davis  – one so threatening that even Sobran can be welcomed back to confront it.

Aside from its numerous factual inaccuracies, Mr Davis’s article is a remarkable witness to the atavistic drive of  “conservatives” to reach some kind of accommodation with the reigning political and media establishment.  Given the innumerable reverses the conservatives have recently suffered in both politics and the Church one would have expected that, like elsewhere in the conservative movement,  a process of reconsideration of  positions would have set in. But that’s clearly not happened yet in the case of either Mr Davis or the American Conservative. I have serious concerns about the new US Catholic Herald to the extent the views described above will predominate there. But I do agree with Mr Davis on one thing: the writings of Joe Sobran are a treasure of insights that every (real) conservative needs to explore. And in so doing he will rediscover – contrary to the recommendations of Mr Davis –  the personality of the man Sobran himself.

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I wish to bring to your attention some recent action right up here in Fairfield County, CT.  The Convent of the Sacred Heart (aka “Sacred Heart Greenwich”) is a local institution that functions as a high-priced finishing school for the daughters of the well-to-do while maintaining some kind of nebulous Catholic identity. In that regard, it resembles its Manhattan sister institution, the alma mater of Lady Gaga. Now one of the students showed up with a Planned Parenthood sticker on her computer. In some kind of miraculous resurrection of Catholicism at the school, the young lady was told to remove the sticker or eventually face expulsion. And in this the school president was supported by the local bishop, Frank Caggiano!

Predictably, the local press, the proud citizens of Greenwich and apparently the bulk of the alumnae were outraged. What an infringement of this student’s rights! – after all, hadn’t the school permitted a pro-life club at one time? Perhaps understandably, given their Sacred Heart education and exalted economic status, the alumnae affected to see no distinction between pro-life, pro-abortion or pro-gay activity. Indeed, support for Planned Parenthood was loudly expressed. To complete the picture, we should add that Greenwich recently has been a hotbed of anti-Trump rage, what with anti-Trump “art” being exhibited at the grandiose local library.

And then The New York Times picked up the story……

If we may believe the local press, the easily foreseeable end of the story has now been reached: complete capitulation by the school administration and reversal of their decision. The young lady may now display her Planned Parenthood sticker while remaining in good standing at the school. In a sense it only confirms what already has been known for years – that not one shred of Catholicism remains in the Convent of the Sacred Heart. The diocese of Bridgeport, at least up till now, has been silent on the latest developments. Is it all not just one more powerful piece of evidence of the accelerating extinction of the Catholic Church in these parts, of the Church’s continuing inability to confront those having money and media power?

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