Patrick Rostrum

The pews of St. Vincent de Paul Parish were, to no one’s surprise, packed today at the noon Ash Wednesday service. This beautiful (if somewhat rundown) gem of a church, with its towering Corinthian columns and Tiffany stained-glass windows, sits on Manhattan’s West Twenty-Third Street, in . . . . Continue Reading »

As attractive, well-dressed worshipers climbed out of taxis on New York’s Park Avenue and streamed into the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola for the eleven o’clock Solemn Mass on Sunday, January 10, the atmosphere was one of quiet, reverence, and peace. The parishioners were gathering, in . . . . Continue Reading »