Photos from the New York Purgatorial Society monthly Mass in the Dominican Rite at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer, New York,  on February 19  for the Feast of St. Francis de Capillas, OP.  Photos courtesy of Diana Yuan.

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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Our Society will be sponsoring a Solemn Mass at St. Agnes Church in Brooklyn for the Feast of St. Joan of Arc on Wednesday,  May 30 at 7 pm.

A historic church lovingly called the “Cathedral of Brooklyn,” by locals,  St. Agnes is located at 433 Sackett Street in Carroll Gardens. This will be the first Traditional Mass in this church since the Second Vatican Council.

The F & G trains and the B57 buses are a short walk from the church on the next street over (Smith Street).

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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On March 7, at 7 pm, the traditional feast of St. Thomas Aquinas will be commemorated by a Dominican Rite Missa Cantata at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer in New York.

The Schola Cantorum will sing the following music:

Missa L’homme armé á 5 – Cristóbal de Morales
In conspectu angelorum – Sebastián de Vivanco
O sacrum convivum á 6 – Francisco Guerrero

This Wednesday, February 14, is Ash Wednesday.  The following churches will offer the traditional Mass:

St. Mary Church, Norwalk, CT,  low Mass 7:30 am; Solemn Mass 5:30 pm.

Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Bridgeport, low Mass 7:45 am, high Mass 6:00 pm

St. Stanislaus Church, New Haven, low Mass 5 pm

Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Gales Ferry, CT,  low Mass  8:00 a.m

St. Martha Parish, Enfield CT,  7 pm

Pontifical Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, New York, NY,  low Mass 7:45 am, Solemn Mass, 7:30 pm 

Holy Innocents, New York, NY, 8 am, 6 pm

St. Anthony’s Roman Catholic Church, 1496 Commonwealth Avenue, Bronx, NY, Missa Cantata, 7 pm.

Immaculate Conception Church, Sleepy Hollow, NY, low Mass 5 pm,

St Paul’s Church, Yonkers, NY, low Mass 12 noon

St. Anthony of Padua, Jersey City,   8 pm

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, 259 Oliver Street, Newark, 7pm Sung Mass, Rev Msgr Joseph F Ambrosio celebrant,  ample parking

Shrine Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, Raritan, NJ, 7 pm