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Gavin Ashenden
Traditional Latin Mass
Traditionis Custodes: When “professional Catholic” squabbling spills over
July 27, 2021
For millions of Catholics around the world who find comfort in the traditional Latin Mass, the fights of the rectory and professional Catholic class have once again struck them at home.
On the unity of the Church in our times
July 25, 2021
In a homily preached on 18 July 2021 at the Monastère Saint-Benoît, liturgical scholar Dom Alcuin Reid offers both a reflection on the place of the traditional Latin Mass in the unity of the Church, and a description of how his monastery will respond to Francis’s Traditionis Custodes. He asked us to highlight his call
Summorum Pontificum a restoration after a gross impoverishment
July 18, 2021
Though it has just been rejected by his successor, Benedict XVI’s motu propio Summorum Pontificum made many people happy when he issued it in 2007. Liturgical scholar Alcuin Reid celebrated the statement as a needed application of the real intentions of the Second Vatican Council. He had reason to say this. A monk of the
Twelve quick thoughts on Pope Francis dropping his long-expected bomb on the traditional latin Mass
July 16, 2021
1) In his motu proprio Traditionis Custodes, Pope Francis says St. John Paul II’s indults were only meant to heal the breach with Archbishop Lefebvre, not to have the traditional latin Mass as a continuing reality in the Church (my paraphrase). He quotes Pope Benedict XVI on “allowing” the TLM, which seems to buttress the point
Breaking: Pope Francis issues restrictions on extraordinary form Masses in new motu proprio
July 16, 2021
Vatican City, Jul 16, 2021 / 04:45 am. Pope Francis issued a motu proprio on Friday restricting Masses celebrated in the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite. In the motu proprio, issued July 16, the pope made sweeping changes to his predecessor Benedict XVI’s 2007 apostolic letter Summorum Pontificum, which acknowledged the right of all priests to say
Video: Archbishop’s sermon praising Old Rite goes viral
May 02, 2018
Archbishop Alexander K Sample noted the popularity of the Latin Mass among young people
Extraordinary Form missal to be produced in Braille for the first time
January 05, 2018
The Braille Order of Mass, produced by the Latin Mass Society, is expected to be made available later this month
Young Catholics want reverence, not liturgy wars
September 08, 2017
Matthew Schmitz is right that young Catholics are more traditionally-minded. But that doesn't always mean the Old Rite
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