St. Marguerite Bourgeoys Church in Brookfield, CT will offer a Low Mass for the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel on Saturday July 16, 2022 @ 09:00. Blessing of scapulars and investing of scapulars at the altar rail following Holy Mass.

The American delegation of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George and the Royal Order of Francis I is hosting a gala cocktail reception in true southern Italian style on Friday, July 22, 2022 at 7 pm.

Honoring us, along with the presence of other prelate-members, bishops, ecclesiastical dignitaries and friends of the Order, will be His Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke, the titular priest of St. Agatha’s, who will be the keynote speaker at the reception, to discuss the great work that needs to be done for the ancient church’s restoration.

Prepaid tickets of $150 each are available for the reception, which will take place at Macaluso’s, 55 4th Avenue, Hawthorne, NJ, 07506. Prepaid tickets must be reserved no later than Monday, July 18. Cocktail attire. For more information regarding tickets and sponsorship opportunities, please contact the Delegation office at 1-833-514-3040 or email info@smocsg.org.

(Above) Pilgrims enduring the terrible weather of last Saturday. (Photo:Renaissance Catholique)

The 40th “Pilgrimage of Christendom” ended successfully Monday despite all the adversities of this year – from the weather and otherwise. A record number of pilgrims (at least 15,000) participated. For a report see:

Les miracles de Chartres

Now, as many of us know, on the same Pentecost weekend a pilgrimage organized by the FSSPX travels in the opposite direction – Chartres to Paris. This pilgrimage unfortunately had to be cancelled because of the storm’s effect on their camping grounds. The organizers report 4,000 were underway at the time of cancellation.

Communiqué aux valeureux pèlerins

For a more detailed report on the FSSPX pilgrimage(with dramatic pictures of the storm):

Un pèlerinage hors norme 

Now on May 29 another event ended – the German Catholic Congress (Katholikentag). This is an event organized with the full support of the German Catholic Church – indeed, most of the participants are members of Church organizations in one way or another (in that respect it resembles the L.A. Religious Education conference). As always it is a celebration of Catholic progressivism – focusing on environmentalism, the syndodal path, female clergy, LGBTQ, Ukraine, sexual abuse, etc. The Congress’s materials are written in a nearly illegible German using “gender-neutral” forms. Most of the funding for this conference comes directly or indirectly from the German government. Yet despite all this massive support by State and Church, the number of attendeees of the full Congress this year was disastrously low – around 19,000 (including 7,000 engaged in some official capacity in the Congress itself):

Nach dem Katholikentag: Zeitansage für eine krisenhafte Kirche

Der Katholikentag braucht ein kompakteres Format

( “The Katholikentag cost 10 million Euro – mostly funded by the government.” “Since the pandemic the number of those who attend church has dropped by half.“)

19,000 at the Katholikentag of the German Catholic establishment and its allied progressive forces – compared to at least 19,000 walking the two Chartres pilgrimages of Tradition. Numbers don’t lie……