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The new ‘Mass of the Ages’ film is an emotionally charged must-watch for Catholics

March 21, 2024

The new “Mass of the Ages” film released on YouTube on 19 March – and the third in a trilogy about the Latin Mass – is the most moving yet. “We want to bring back the human, the true, the real,” says the mother of a French priest. “For everything in life…when we deal with

Letters: Fiducia Supplicans and ‘bowing to the corrupting nature of a secular world devoid of absolutes’

March 04, 2024

Fiducia Supplicans Sir – It is worrying that the Holy Father appears to question the motives of anyone who has concerns about Fiducia Supplicans and same-sex relationships. That these have been raised by a large and varied group in the Church is surely at least testimony to the fact that the document is problematic. The traditional continuum

Pope ‘understanding’ towards FSSP, ‘invites’ Priestly Fraternity to ‘build up’ and celebrate Traditional Latin Mass

March 04, 2024

Pope Francis has held a meeting with leading representatives of the largest grouping of traditionalist priests in the Catholic Church during which he reaffirmed his support for their charism. Speaking on behalf of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP), Fr Andrzej Komorowski, Abbé Benoît Paul-Joseph, and Abbé Vincent Ribeton were received by the Pope

Cardinal says Latin Mass devotees haven’t been ‘banished’ from the church

October 11, 2023

ROME – Asked about conservative Catholics who feel they are not represented in the ongoing Synod of Bishops on Synodality, specifically Latin Mass devotees struggling with restrictions imposed by Pope Francis, American Cardinal Joseph Tobin said they still have a place in the church. Asked during an Oct. 11 press briefing whether the agenda for

Pope cracked down on Latin Mass to halt ideological ‘restorationism’

May 10, 2023

Pope Francis has said he launched the latest crackdown against access to the Traditional Latin Mass because the Old Rite was being misused “in an ideological way”. The Pontiff told a group of fellow Jesuits that he authorised the “rescript” that led to the cancellation of Old Rite Masses in churches throughout the world because

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

Letter from Rome: the Roche rescript comes with all the zeal of Saul the Pharisee

February 24, 2023

Still breathing threats against the Church’s ancient liturgy with a zeal reminiscent of Saul the Pharisee in Acts 9:1, Cardinal Arthur Roche has now begun strong-arming bishops to “ensure the correct application” of Pope Francis’s 2021 apostolic letter restricting the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM), Traditionis Custodes.

Roche implements further Vatican crackdown on the Traditional Latin Mass: but why?

February 23, 2023

The dust is beginning to settle on the rescript of the motu proprio Traditiones Custodes which was issued in Rome on the afternoon of Shrove Tuesday, after Cardinal Arthur Roche, the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, was received in audience by the Holy Father. Diocesan bishops will no longer be given the agency and final authority over whether new parishes within their dioceses should be permitted to host celebrations of the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM).