Joseph Shaw, Author at Catholic Herald

Joseph Shaw

Loss of traditional-rite Triduum in Westminster as Cardinal Nichols says ‘No’

March 27, 2024

This year the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, has refused permission for the celebration of the services of the pre-Vatican II Easter Triduum in his diocese. These services have taken place in the Archdiocese of Westminster since the 1990s, and have attracted up to 200 people, including many of those served by the various

Strange bedfellows: Unlikely figures who rallied around the Traditional Latin Mass in the 60s and 70s

January 04, 2024

When the post-Vatican II liturgical reform was getting underway in 1966, and again when the reformed Mass had been unveiled in 1971, petitions signed by intellectuals and cultural figures – poets, writers, artists, musicians – called for the preservation of the older liturgy, alongside the new. These voices were heard by Pope Paul VI, who

‘Distressing’: no more Traditional Masses at High Altar of Westminster Cathedral

September 30, 2023

The Latin Mass Society has been informed that the Traditional Latin Mass may no longer be celebrated at the High Altar of Westminster Cathedral, as is has been twice a year since 1972. With a break for Covid, there have therefore been about 100 such Masses over fifty years. The next one would have been

The Roche Rescript impoverishes the whole Church, says Chairman of Latin Mass Society

April 01, 2023

Seminarians of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter (FSSP) prepare to receive minor orders at Wigratzbad Since Pope Francis’s Apostolic Letter Traditionis Custodes in 2021, congregations attending the pre-Vatican II Traditional Latin Mass (TLM), have been living on borrowed time. Pope Francis announced that he wished to enforce “single and identical prayer” and to this

Canonists cast doubt on the force of Responsa ad dubia on the Traditional Latin Mass

December 23, 2021

On Saturday 18th December a document was published by the Congregation for Divine Worship tightening up restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass: Responsa ad dubia. This is a clarification of Pope Francis’ Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes, answering questions (‘dubia’) sent to the Congregation by bishops. Since then canonists all over the Catholic world have been

The Extraordinary Form: a call to arms

July 29, 2021

Rumours have been circulating that Pope Francis is planning some kind of restriction on the Extraordinary Form of the Mass (EF), the “Traditional Mass”. This form of the liturgy clearly still has opponents in the Church. Its supporters regard it as, potentially, being a key driver of the Church’s revival, because of the counter-cultural zeal

Could our annual pilgrimage work online? Only up to a point

September 29, 2020

What exactly are we losing as our lives move increasingly online? Few of us will be sorry to forgo long commutes, and we will all have our own experiences of online work meetings, email collaboration, and teaching by video-link. As for large-scale devotional events, the Latin Mass Society, like other Catholic organisations, had to learn

Homeschooling can broaden parents’ horizons too

July 10, 2020

The problem of children of all ages bouncing off the walls – while other children attempt to do their lessons, endless meals are prepared and the adult world of work impinges – has been trying for many people during the lockdown, but this describes normal life for a large home-educating family like our own. That’s

Masses cancelled and Confession impossible? We can still live the faith

March 19, 2020

In a time of church closures, we need both faith and reason

Great Books courses are richly rewarding – but they have a fatal flaw

October 24, 2019

How to Keep From Losing Your Mind By Deal Hudson Tan, 384pp, £22/$24.95 In the 1920s, some influential academics were dismayed to find that many graduates of elite American universities were, not to put too fine a point on it, culturally illiterate. They lacked the knowledge that could be taken for granted among cultivated Europeans

Did World War II undermine Catholicism?

August 01, 2019

Mass Exodus By Stephen Bullivant OUP, 302pp, £25/$32.95 Why Catholics Leave, What they Miss, and How They Might Return By Stephen Bullivant Paulist Press, 168pp, £15.71/$19.95 Was Vatican II in some way responsible for declining Catholic practice and “affiliation” (people calling themselves Catholics), or is this phenomenon a matter of trends beyond the Church’s control?

The Knights of Malta’s Mass ban is hardly chivalrous

June 20, 2019

Fra’ Giacomo Dalla Torre, the Grand Master of the Order of Malta, has informed members that henceforth all Masses celebrated in the context of Order events must be celebrated according to the Ordinary Form: that is to say, there must be no more Traditional Latin (Extraordinary Form) Masses. This will come as a heavy blow

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