Name of Church Cathedral of St. Helena
Address 530 North Ewing Street, Helena MT 59601
Phone number (406) 442-5825
Mass times Saturday vigil, 5 p.m. Sundays, 7:30 a.m., 9 a.m., 11 a.m. Monday – Friday, 7 a.m., Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday, noon. Saturday, 9 a.m. The cathedral has hosted two Latin Tridentine Masses recently, including on All Souls Day, which were well attended; a regular diocesan Tridentine Mass may be established in the area soon.
Confessions Saturdays, following 9 a.m. Mass until 11 a.m. and by appointment.
Names of priests Monsignor Kevin O’Neill, pastor. Father John Crutchfield, parochial vicar.
Special groups/activities Young Adult Group, Catholic Couple Fellowship, exposition of the Blessed Sacrament on Fridays after 7 a.m. Mass, devotion to Our Mother of Perpetual Help on Tuesdays following Masses.
School No, St. Helena’s school closed years ago. Helena does not have parochial schools, although there is a private Catholic school in Helena, St. Andrew’s, which serves grades K-12. Carroll College, a Catholic liberal arts college which opened in 1909, is a mile away from the cathedral.
Music There is a world-class organ which is played at most weekend Masses.
Fellow parishioners This is a mostly English-speaking community in western Montana.
Parking There is a large parking lot to the north of the cathedral.
Acoustics They are excellent for a large church. In fact, the Helena Symphony & Chorale performs Handel’s Messiah there in December. You can ask for a hearing assistance device, however, if you need one.
Cry room No.
Additional observations The Cathedral of St. Helena is a historic gothic cathedral that is the mother church of the diocese of Helena. The church opened for Mass in 1914, although building on the structure continued for another 10 years. A wealthy miner funded the cathedral, which is modeled after one in Vienna, Austria. It is ornate, with high, decorative ceilings and marble columns, beautiful stained glass windows, impressive woodwork, a pipe organ and beautiful traditional art. It is located in downtown Helena, and surprisingly large for a relatively small city (its towers stand out impressively as you view the city landscape). Check the website for summer cathedral tours for groups. The diocese itself has struggled recently; in 2014, it filed for bankruptcy due to settlements of clergy sex abuse cases dating back to the 1940s.
“…a regular diocesan Tridentine Mass may be established in the area soon.”
Pray God the TLM is re-established at this beautiful Church which was built precisely to highlight the inherent beauty and ritual significance of the TLM. With prayer, St. Helena’s will soon return to her roots, finding true and lasting healing therein.
Beautiful! What a marvelous way to spend your money! The nameless miner must have wanted to stay anonymous, like the donors for Mother Angelica’s Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament. And it’s such a visible sign of Christ in the community.
PS. Reading about the bankruptcy just makes me so angry…those worthless pedophiles just keep on destroying the good, even if many of them have been dead for years. Has any of them had to help pay restitution, or did they all get off scot free?
Nobody gets off “scott free” with God. Don’t worry about it.
Cardinal ROGER MAHONY got off scot free, and continues to do so.
His purposeful aiding and abetting sexually abusive Priests cost the LA Diocese people more than $660 MILLION.
If Mahony had done his job – morally and legally – the Diocese would not have had to pay fines. Only the assets of Priests found guilty would be able to be attached.
Cardinal Roger Mahony was an official for the Fresno Diocese and Stockton Diocese and aided and abetted there as well. He is named in many of those law suits.
Unfortunately, Mahony is not in jail due to the legal statute of limitations.
Pope Francis and his committee has done nothing to reprimand SERIOUSLY guilty Cardinals and Bishops as proven in Court documents.
Mahony continues to hold the honored title of “Emeritus” and is still on the web site of the LA Diocese rather than being removed from the public.
https://www.la-archdiocese.org/cardinal/Pages/default.aspx
Mahony even got to vote for the new Pope in the last enclave.
Mahony’s personal assets have not contributed to pay for his actions.
In many cases the guilty parties (Priests or Bishops) do not have many assets, but Mahony does including a vacation home. Some of Mahony’s assets were inherited.
Cindy,
Perhaps instead of saying “no one gets off scot free” we should say that those who get off “scot free” on this planet, WILL NOT GET OFF SCOT FREE IN THE NEXT!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika and His Church!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Kenneth M. Fisher
Sad story, but very typical of many Catholic churches. Check back when they have the courage to schedule a TLM, every Sunday, at convenient times.
It is a blessing that they have hosted the Extraordinary Form of the Mass. This building is meant for those Masses to take place there. I will pray that they are granted a place there. It is only fitting.
Many, if not most, of the pedophiles are/were priests. Thus , unlikely they had large amounts of money from which to pay [their share of] a judgement. Besides, the bankruptcies are driven by civil judgments against the Diocese themselves for things the Dioceses did or failed to do. So the Dioceses are on the hook financially.
“The diocese itself has struggled recently; in 2014, it filed for bankruptcy due to settlements of clergy sex abuse cases dating back to the 1940s.”
Sex abuse cases dating back in the 1940’s……..who would of thought.
Well this looks like a beautiful parish. God bless the faithful there and may they continue to persevere and endure because Jesus made promises to His lay faithful that remain faithful….
What a beautiful church! The man who gave the money so it could be built will certainly have his reward in heaven – think of all the masses, confessions, weddings and baptisms happened here because of his generosity.
What a miracle to have survived the onslaught of destruction of so many many old Roman Catholic Churches after V2.
Here is the deal, enough already of the fake Novus Ordo the dancing girls, altar girls, communion in the hand, kiss of peace, guitars, drums, polyester vestments, folk, rock, mariachi music, felt banners, female and male lectors, restore the TLM to where it belongs in all of our churches, cathedrals, convents, seminaries, and we will have a true SPRINGTIME in the Church. Was everything perfect prior to Vatican II? No it was not but it was BETTER!!!!! Mass attendance at 75% now at 10% seminaries and convents packed, belief in the real presence, I can go on but you get it!