Priest who said future of Church rested on family rosary dies aged 95
A Jesuit priest who inspired Catholics across the country has died at the age of 95. Fr Hugh Thwaites converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism following his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese...
View ArticleRomano Guardini’s advice for Catholics at Mass in 1936 could have been...
I have recently finished reading Romano Guardini’s Meditations Before Mass (Guardini was the priest and liturgist who was highly influential in the thinking of Benedict XVI). Produced by Ave Maria...
View ArticleExtraordinary Form Masses drew ‘record’ numbers over Easter, says Latin Mass...
There has been a “record” rise in numbers attending Extraordinary Form Masses over Easter, according to the Latin Mass Society. Across Britain more than 200 older form Masses were celebrated over Holy...
View ArticleBradford parish to become regular centre for Extraordinary Form Mass
A new centre for the celebration of Mass in the Extraordinary Form will open later this year in the north of England. Bishop Marcus Stock of Leeds has announced that St Joseph’s Church in Bradford is...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 07/10/16
Pope Francis will face some Muslim opposition when he visits Bangladesh next year, reports AsiaNews. An Argentine priest who denounced drug dealers has been found dead in his home. Russian Orthodox...
View ArticleThe Pope criticises young admirers of the Old Mass. I think I know who he means
Pope Francis’s remarks on the “rigidity” of some attendees of the Extraordinary Form have sparked a great deal of comment. While much of this has been lighthearted – I have Facebook friends for whom...
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Bishop establishes centre for the traditional Latin Mass in Devon
Bishop Mark O’Toole of Plymouth has established a permanent base for the traditional Latin Mass in Devon. A Sunday morning Mass in the Extraordinary Form is now being celebrated at St Edward the...
View ArticleYoung Catholics want reverence, not liturgy wars
Everyone, including Catholics, wants to figure out millennials, the much-maligned generation to which I undeniably belong. Last week, my fellow native Nebraskan Matthew Schmitz wrote a piece for the...
View ArticleExtraordinary Form missal to be produced in Braille for the first time
An Order of Mass for the older Latin form of the liturgy is to be produced in Braille in what is believed to be the first of its kind. The Latin Mass Society is working to produce the missal with the...
View ArticleVideo: Archbishop’s sermon praising Old Rite goes viral
Young people are drawn to the Traditional Latin Mass by its “beauty”, “sense of mystery” and “transcendence”, Archbishop Alexander K Sample has said. Speaking during a Pontifical High Mass in the...
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