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Curbs on Traditional Latin Mass ‘broke Pope Benedict’s heart’

January 04, 2023

New curbs on the Traditional Latin Mass “broke Pope Benedict’s heart”, according to his private secretary. Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the closest confidant of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, revealed that the de facto reversal of his policies to liberate the Old Mass came as a heavy blow to the former pontiff, who died on Saturday at

Cardinal Zuppi: can no special ‘signs’ really be read into TLM pilgrimage participation?

November 03, 2022

According to Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, there are no special “signs” to be read into his attendance and presiding over Vespers for a recent annual Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) pilgrimage to Rome, named after Benedict XVI’s apostolic letter Summorum Pontificum, acknowledging the right of all priests to offer Mass according to the 1962 Roman Missal. As reported by Andrea

Shia LaBeouf becomes Catholic devotee of Traditional Latin Mass

August 29, 2022

Hollywood movie star Shia LaBeouf has become a Catholic after playing the role of St Pio of Pietrelcina in a forthcoming film. The Transformers and Fury actor also revealed his devotion to the Traditional Latin Mass in an 80-minute interview with Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester and Word on Fire ministries. LaBeouf describes receiving Holy

‘I fight the good fight, the good fight of faith’

August 12, 2022

Few priests have Fr Gerry’s charisma as well as moral clarity on the leading issues facing the Church and society today.

Vatican liturgy chief: Traditional Latin Mass ‘abrogated by Pope St. Paul VI’

November 09, 2021

The Vatican’s liturgy chief has said that the Traditional Latin Mass was “abrogated by Pope Saint Paul VI.” Archbishop Arthur Roche made the comment in a letter dated Aug. 4 to the English Cardinal Vincent Nichols. The prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments was replying to a letter

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