Reverence before God
Worship, forms of worship, such as bowing the knee, taking off the shoes, keeping silence, a prescribed dress, and the like, are considered as necessary for a...
Cream City Convent
The Sisters of Saint Francis have a remarkable treasure and piece of Milwaukee history in their Lake Drive convent. The Saint Francis Chapel, on the second floo...
“Tamed by elegance”
European chivalry had tied manliness to gentleness and had “subdued the fierceness of pride and power.” In Christian Europe, authority had been tamed by elegan...
Noon Latin Mass on Saint Patrick’s (updated)
On the Feast of Saint Patrick (March 17th), a Solemn High Mass in the extraordinary form will be offered at 12:00PM at the historic Saint Patrick Parish, locate...
Back to work
A web of scaffolding has returned to Saint Stanislaus. By now it's a familiar site, as we've witnessed the extensive interior restoration work that's been going...
A Frenchman who Showed the Face of God
He was born in 1836 in Nantes, one of the four pillar-cities of the ancient Duchy of Brittany, to a rich cloth merchant and his wife. Brittany is, to this day, ...
The Welcome Factor
"The liturgy derives its greatness from what it is, not from what we do with it."~ Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (Collected Works Theology of the Liturgy, Joseph Ra...
Inn for a Treat
It starts when you drive down National Avenue. You enter the mists of time.
The strip of National from 76th to 59th looks like 1991.
Or 1987. Even 1962.
...
Red Light
What do you do to make soup cool?
You blow on it.
Or: you serve it in a cramped cellar on the Lower East Side with fewer tables than customers, do it unti...
The Lost City
Head down to Ogden Avenue and Milwaukee Street, just a few blocks east of the Milwaukee River, and you're on the site of a lost city. It's not hard to find. The...