Fr Edmund Montgomery, Author at Catholic Herald

Fr Edmund Montgomery

Online Masses are hugely popular. That creates new dilemmas

May 15, 2020

Shrewsbury Cathedral, where I am associate priest, is like many churches presently offering an online live-streaming of the Mass, devotions, and Eucharistic Adoration. Like others, we have been stunned by the sheer number of those who have been logging on from their homes, their sick beds or self-isolation, or during their lunch hours to join

As a chaplain, I think the new directive is a mistake

June 20, 2019

So the Grand Master of the Order of Malta has forbidden the Extraordinary Form. As of Monday, June 10, we chaplains of the Order may only offer the Mass and the sacraments in the Ordinary Form. I believe this is a mistake, and I will respectfully write to the Grand Master asking him to reconsider.

The Old Mass ban will hurt the Order of Malta’s charism

June 12, 2019

The Grand Master of the Order of Malta has forbidden the Extraordinary Form: as of Monday, we chaplains of the Order may only offer the Mass and the sacraments in the Ordinary Form. I believe this is a mistake, and I will respectfully write to the Grand Master asking him to reconsider. This is not

Where is the Church in the midst of this absurdity?

June 08, 2020

How might we go about leaving lockdown? The Church should be key in national discussions. The arguments around Brexit seem to have raged an age ago: whether to leave or to remain. We made the decision to Brexit, whether exiting the European Union would be a hard or soft departure, and without knowing what any