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At the church founded by the late Rev. Paul Wickens, Mass is always said in Latin. Women still cover their heads, and people receive the host in their mouths from a priest, never touching it with their own hands. To say that St. Anthony of Padua, the church Wickens started nine years ago, is a haven for traditionalists is an understatement. And with his death this year, the search for just the right successor to the old founder has split the parishioners of this unusual West Orange church. At a time when they would rather rally around a new priest,...

Reviewer: jim.moriarty@xxxxxxxxx Sylvania, Ohio United States) This confirms what I thought was going on in the Novus Ordo Church. These priests see the Liberal-Modernist overtones of the New Mass and reject it. They literally go through HELL to get back to the sacrificing priest concept who offers up Jesus Christ for our sins, like in the Old Testament, not a Good Time "Happy Meal" as the Novus Ordo has it. I didn't want to put it down. These men are REAL HEROES, bucking the Catholic establishment, giving up EVERYTHING, (pension, medical insurance, housing, etc.) for their beliefs. Some are even...

Rev. Paul Wickens, Latin Mass advocate Saturday, July 10, 2004 BY GEORGE BERKIN Star-Ledger Staff ....Rev. Wickens, who defied the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church to return to the traditional Latin Mass that was practiced before the changes ordered by the Second Vatican Council, died Thursday. He was 74.... ....The church hierarchy was less enthusiastic. In a 1997 interview, a spokesman for then-Newark Archbishop Theodore McCarrick said Rev. Wickens' chapel was not a legitimate Roman Catholic entity. "He had no authorization to build it, to say Mass, to hear confessions or to preach. Those faculties were suspended in 1983...