Posted on 06/26/2007 6:21:11 PM PDT by Pyro7480
With the gracious permission of the Archbishop of Newark, the Most Reverend John Meyers, the Institute of Christ the King will be assigning a priest to the Latin Mass Community at St. Anthony of Padua Chapel in West Orange, Newark- New Jersey. Father Matthew Talarico, one of our newly ordained priests, has been appointed Rector of the Chapel by the Archbishop Meyers. Father Talarico, who has already gained good experience serving as deacon in other Institute apostolates and in carrying out many responsibilities in the Seminary, will begin his work on July 17th.
St. Anthony of Padua Chapel is situated in a pleasant residential neighborhood in West Orange, about 20 minutes from the beautiful Cathedral of Newark and 40 minutes from downtown New York. While being a newer church building, it boasts an elegant high altar and an array of devotional statues and stained glass windows. With a good sized rectory it is located in a wooded area, with well entertained beautifully landscaped gardens and a large parking lot. The Chapel is easily accessible from all directions. For the time being, Father Andreas Hellmann, Prior of the Institute’s House in Chicago, replaces Father Talarico, as well as Father Richard Munkelt, who is a priest in residence. Father Talarico will celebrate his first Sunday Masses on July 22nd, followed by the “First blessing” of a newly ordained Priest. All are welcome!
Is this picture from a Holy Name Society event?
That would be the Baptist Church of which you're thinking. Hiring one's own pastor is a Protestant innovation.
In the Catholic Church, the local ordinary appoints clergy.
Good for Bishop Myers! An excellent and holy prelate!
Oh, how I miss Fr. Wickens! :(
That's Archbishop Myers. Newark is an archdiocese. He was Bishop of Peoria before being appointed to Newark.
What?
Ping
The Episcopal Church may be loony, but they never got rid of the altar rails. Even the cathedral here which is ground zero for heresy still has its altar rails.
It just goes to show you that heresy really has nothing to do with whether you have an altar rail or not!
When I lived in Connecticut, I attended in the 1970s, Fr. Wickens' Tridentine Masses at St. Clare's Priory on Clay Street in the Fair Haven section of New Haven (where he would visit to provide Tridentine Masses several times a year).
Fr. Wickens was a very fine man who ran afoul of a very bad archbishop, the late Peter Gerety (once the extremely leftist pastor of a black Catholic Church in New Haven whose parishioners were far better Catholics than their pastor) who demanded that Fr. Wickens compromise the innocence of his parish children by imposing a scandalous sex education program in his parish school. He refused to obey this distinctly immoral order and was separated by Archbishop Gerety.
The crowd who ran St. Clare's Priory were a bunch of malcontents who specialized in trashing longtime Hartford Archbishop John F. Whealon who was quite generous to Tridentine Mass requests in spite of the misbehavior of the St. Clare's crowd. I noted that Fr. Wickens simply came to New Haven to say Mass and pointedly refused to socialize afterwards.
Archbishop John Myers has a far better reputation than did Archbishop Peter Gerety, at least among traditionalists (those traditionalists in communion with the Holy See as all genuine traditionalists must be). Nonetheless, as reprehensible as he was, Peter Gerety WAS the Newark archdiocesan ordinary. Fr. Wickens should have simply left his parish and retired until a better day.
It has been reported on this website that Fr. Wickens left his St. Anthony of Padua Chapel to the Archdiocese of Newark at his death. That ought to be dispositive as to the Chapel, as to actual Catholics and as to the Catholic members of that Chapel.
As with the rebellious rank and file of self-appointed and taste-offended poobahs at St. Stanislaus in St. Louis who are in rebellion against Archbishop Raymond Burke, there is apparently an element of rebellious anti-Catholics among Fr. Wickens' onetime congregation who simply WILL NOT be satisfied unless they are in total charge and can boss the archbishop and pope around. Fine, so long as they understand that whatever sort of make believe they may choose to play, they are NOT Catholics.
If Fr. Matt Talarico is not Catholic enough for the malicious malcontents of the breakaway "chapel", then they simply fail to apprehend what Catholic means. Good riddance to such. The door is always open if they repent their sins and do penance. Any kindness they receive from legitimate ecclesiastical authority is a gift and certainly not their right and also in spite of and not because of their grave errors.
Neat Stuff!!
We need one here in Milwaukee.
Fr. Talarico will be offering a first Mass in Pittsburgh at his home parish of St. Boniface on July 15 at 11:00. For those near Pittsburgh, it will be a Solemn High Mass, and should be the most beautiful Mass at St. Boniface in quite some time.
http://www.pittsburghlatinmass.org
The Oratory has at least one seminarian still in the pipeline and due to be ordained in about a year for the all Tridentine Institute of Christ the King. Mrs. Elk can fill you in on name and details. The name is escaping me but he is a very fine young man who will, no doubt, make a great priest. Wisconsin is a bit heavy in having as much of an Institute of Christ the King presence as it has and, I believe, the Order’s American HQ is in Wisconsin. IIRC, they are in Green Bay and Wausau. Put your locale’s bid in early for this fellow, by name, and it might help you reserve him. Better yet, if Archbishop Dolan inquired as to him by name, I would think it would add weight to the scales.
Actually, they moved their HQ down to Chicago, where they're renovating the church that will become their Shrine of Christ the King.
It used to be. They moved their HQ to Chicago.
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