Traditional Latin Mass in Maryland

The Catholic Review posted a story by David Gibson of Catholic News Service on the Dominican House of studies in D.C . The Dominican house is a landmark of Michigan Avenue in northeast Washington, adjacent to The Catholic University of America. When construction of the new building commenced, some surely wondered whether plans to attach it directly to the Dominicans’ much older building could succeed without damaging the property’s overall beauty and balance. But the architects succeeded well at blending the exteriors of the old and new. They excelled at perhaps an even higher level on the interior where one encounters inviting, contemporary classrooms and a library whose grand, impressive windows not only allow the sunlight in, but marvelously frame the view across the road of university buildings and lawns, and the famed Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. The new center houses the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, conducted by the friars of...