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What the media misses with its cynical take on ‘Gen Z’ embracing traditional Catholicism

February 15, 2024

Since the coining of the term “Gen Z”, older generations have maintained a steady interest in their habits. Observed with fascination, like a Neanderthal cousin who is curiously similar but evolutionarily very different, Gen Z’s likes and dislikes are continually analysed and then commented on. And now, apparently, people are getting excited because ‘Gen Z’

How tradition keeps the Church alive

June 04, 2023

The Liturgy, the Family, and the Crisis of Modernity: Essays of a Traditional Catholic Joseph Shaw Os Justi Press, £15.95, 294 pages When Evelyn Waugh converted to Catholicism in 1930, he famously defended his crossing of the Tiber in a letter to the Daily Express, explaining that the choice before him and his contemporaries was

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

It would have been better if Summorum Pontificum had been left alone

March 28, 2023

On February 21, the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, headed by prefect Cardinal Arthur Roche, issued a rescript, empowering Cardinal Roche with absolute and arbitrary power to grant or deny exceptions to Pope Francis’s 2021 motu proprio letter, Traditionis Custodes, which severely restricts celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM).

A lesson from history: recusant architecture and the Latin Mass

September 26, 2022

The priest hole in England was the secret place built into a home, behind a staircase or fire place, where Catholic priests who were invited to celebrate the Latin mass were hidden from the authorities. The Protestant Elizabethan state accused both the priests who celebrated the Latin mass and those who hid them of treason.

The Pope needs to respect the Latin Mass

September 14, 2022

The traditional Latin Mass hit headlines recently after actor Shia LaBeouf announced his embrace of Catholicism because of what he experienced at the Traditional Latin Mass, the standard liturgy beginning with the Council of Trent until the Second Vatican Council. Unlike Benedict XVI – who lifted restrictions on the Mass – Pope Francis has issued

Are papal priorities right?

September 30, 2021

Now is the time for the bishops to come into their own. The Pope, in his motu proprio – Traditionis Custodes – on restricting the celebration of Mass in the extraordinary form, the Tridentine rite, has said that any would-be celebrant must first obtain the permission of the local bishop. Hearteningly the signs are that

Suppression of the Traditional Rite

August 26, 2021

With the clergy seemingly intent on blotting out tradition, the Church finds itself engaged in another unedifying culture war