Latin Mass Society

Iota Unum talk from 25th April, given by Niall Gooch, journalist in the Spectator, the Catholic Herald and UnHerd on 'God and Mr Toad: Christian Morality and the lovable rogue in fiction'.

Iota Unum talk from 25th October, given by Dr Shaw -  ‘The Family and Catholic Culture'.  Dr Shaw is chairman of the Latin Mass Society and The Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce (FIUV).

Dr Joseph Shaw in conversation with the "Learn Latin" youtube channel.  The subject is the Traditional Latin Mass, Gregorian Chant, Pilgrimages and Latin in general!

Talk given to the LMS AGM on Saturday 29 June 2024.  Dr Joseph Shaw on "Newman & church and state"

Iota Unum talk from 17th May, given by Dan Hitchens -  ‘Sr Clare Crockett: a modern saint?' Dan Hitchens is a columnist for The Spectator and senior editor at First Things.

Talk given to the Catholic Writers' Guild (Keys) by Dr Joseph Shaw on the subject of Monarchy.  Joseph Shaw is Chairman of the Latin Mass Society and FIUV.

A talk given by LMS and FIUV chairman, Dr Joseph Shaw in Washington DC on Sunday 7th April.

Talk given by Dr Joseph Shaw at the Catholic Central Library, Dublin.

Talk given by Dr Joseph Shaw to the Latin Mass Society of Ireland, Waterford.

Talk given by Dr Joseph Shaw to the Roundtower Conference, Galway.

Introductory talk given by Dr Joseph Shaw - editor of 'A Defence of the Monarchy'

Talk given by Jamie Bogle - contributing author to 'A Defence of the Monarchy'

Talk given by Sebastian Morello - contributing author to 'A Defence of the Monarchy'

Talk given in Rome by Dr Joseph Shaw, chairman of the Latin Mass Society, on the occasion of the launch of his new book: "The Latin Mass and the Intellectuals": Petitions to Save the ancient Mass from 1966 to 2007.

Iota Unum talk from 24th November, given by Henry Sire, historian and Catholic writer.  He is author of the controversial assessment of Pope Francis' pontificate The Dictator Pope, published by ‎Regnery (2018).

Talk given by Dr Joseph Shaw, chairman of the Latin Mass Society, on the 9th November at St Wilfrid's Hall, London Oratory. The occasion was the launch of his new book: "The Latin Mass and the Intellectuals": Petitions to Save the ancient Mass from 1966 to 2007.

Iota Unum talk from 28th September, given by Dr Joseph Shaw, chairman of the Latin Mass Society.

Dr Shaw talks about the intellectuals and their petitions to save the Latin Mass between 1967-2007.

Mr John Smeaton, former Chief Executive of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, spoke to us on his personal experience of "Discovering" or rather "Rediscovering" the Latin Mass!

Iota Unum talk from 30th June, given by Professor Thomas Pink on the topic of 'Religion and Human Nature'.

Iota Unum talk from 24th March, given by Dr Sebastian Morello on the topic of 'Technocracy and the Process of Un-Personing'.

This is the introductory talk given by LMS Chairman, Dr Joseph Shaw at the launch of his new book: The Liturgy, the Family, and the Crisis of Modernity.

Does Morality affect Beauty in the work of Artists?   With special reference to:  St Fra Angelico (15th Century)  Caravaggio ​(16th Century)  Fr Marco Rupnik (20th Century)

Dr Joseph Shaw, Chairman of the Latin Mass Society. Given at the Annual General Meeting of the Latin Mass Society, held at St Mary Moorfields, London, on Saturday 30th July 2022

This talk was recorded on Friday March 25th in London.    Pierpaolo Finaldi ‘On the vocation of the Catholic author' Pierpaolo Finaldi Pierpaolo Finaldi is the CEO and Publisher of The Catholic Truth Society, Master of the Catholic Writers' Guild, a regular guest on EWTN global Catholic TV, a Catholic Herald top 100 trailblazer Catholic, a husband and father of seven.

Dr Jeremy Pilch ‘St John Henry Newman and Our Lady Mediatrix of All Graces'   Jeremy Pilch   Following undergraduate studies at Oriel College, Oxford, and an MA at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (UCL), Dr Jeremy Pilch was awarded a scholarship for a doctorate at the University of Bristol, researching on the doctrine of deification in the Russian tradition, focusing especially on the thought of Vladimir Solov'ev. At St Mary's University, Dr Pilch is the Programme Director for the BA In Theology, Religion, and Ethics. He regularly teaches across a range of topics, including modules on Systematic Theology, Mariology, Mystical Theology, Theological Anthropology, Christian Ethics, Ecclesiology, and Eastern Christianity  

‘Whatever Happened to Tradition?” Dr Stanley is a well-known historian and journalist, and author of the recent Whatever Happened to Tradition?   This talk is a follow up from his successful book published in 2021 The West feels lost. Brexit, Trump, the coronavirus: we hurtle from one crisis to another, lacking definition, terrified that our best days are behind us. The central argument of this book is that we can only face the future with hope if we have a proper sense of tradition - political, social and religious. We ignore our past at our peril. The problem, argues Tim Stanley, is that the Western tradition is anti-tradition, that we have a habit of discarding old ways and old knowledge, leaving us uncertain how to act or, even, of who we really are. In this wide-ranging book, we see how tradition can be both beautiful and useful, from the deserts of Australia to the court of nineteenth-century Japan. Some of the concepts defended here are highly controversial in the modern West: authority, nostalgia, rejection of self and the hunt for spiritual transcendence. We'll even meet a tribe who dress up their dead relatives and invite them to tea. Stanley illustrates how apparently eccentric yet universal principles can nurture the individual from birth to death, plugging them into the wider community, and creating a bond between generations. He also demonstrates that tradition, far from being pretentious or rigid, survives through clever adaptation, that it can be surprisingly egalitarian. The good news, he argues, is that it can also be rebuilt. It's been done before. The process is fraught with danger, but the ultimate prize of rediscovering tradition is self-knowledge and freedom.   Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC ISBN: 9781472974129

Thomas Pink is a Professor in Philosophy at King's College London and a Patron of the Latin Mass Society. He has a particular interest in the history of theology in the early modern and modern periods, on religious liberty and the role of the Papacy.  

Prof. Lazu Kmita is a Catholic philosopher and writer living in Romania. His works can be seen on the Academia website (English C.V. here); he has also written for The Remnant (e.g. here), Gregorius Magnus (e.g. on p. 32 here), Polonia Christiana (Poland), Radici Cristiane (Italy), Second Spring (Oxford) and many other journals. Also known as a Tolkien scholar, he is the author of a massive Encyclopedia of J.R.R. Tolkien's World (available only in Romanian) and many monographs, studies and articles. The Romanian edition of his first novel, Insula fără anotimpuri (The Island without Seasons) has been released in 2019. The Spanish edition, entitled La Isla del Laberinto (The Island of the Labyrinth), is also available since March, 2021 (here). The English edition will be published next year (2022).  

Joseph Shaw talks to FIUV contacts in three former Communist-bloc countries   From Russia: Oleg-Martin Martynov of Una Voce Russia Oleg-Michaël Martynov (b. 1977) is a founding member of Una Voce Russia, and is on its governing Board. He is also a member of the FIUV Council .   Born and raised in a typical secular family in the last years of the USSR, he was baptized into the Catholic Church in his early 20s. He is married, with two grown-up children but no grandchildren yet, and is an English to Russian translator by trade.   From Poland: Jarosław Syrkiewicz (b.1971) was founding member of Una Voce Polonia and remains on their Board. Jarosław gained an MA in Economics (University of Economics - Katowice 1996), and works in IT.     From Romania: Prof  Robert Lazu Kmita Prof. Lazu Kmita is a Catholic philosopher and writer living in Romania. His works can be seen on the Academia website (English C.V. here); he has also written for The Remnant (e.g. here), Gregorius Magnus (e.g. on p. 32 here), Polonia Christiana (Poland), Radici Cristiane (Italy), Second Spring (Oxford) and many other journals. Also known as a Tolkien scholar, he is the author of a massive Encyclopedia of J.R.R. Tolkien's World (available only in Romanian) and many monographs, studies and articles. The Romanian edition of his first novel, Insula fără anotimpuri (The Island without Seasons) has been released in 2019. The Spanish edition, entitled La Isla del Laberinto (The Island of the Labyrinth), is also available since March, 2021 (here). The English edition will be published next year (2022). Correction: Oleg-Michael mentioned that Stalin banned abortion in the Soviet Union: the correct date of this is 1938, not after the Second World War.

Prof. Lazu Kmita is a Catholic philosopher and writer living in Romania. His works can be seen on the Academia website (English C.V. here); he has also written for The Remnant (e.g. here), Gregorius Magnus (e.g. on p. 32 here), Polonia Christiana (Poland), Radici Cristiane (Italy), Second Spring (Oxford) and many other journals. Also known as a Tolkien scholar, he is the author of a massive Encyclopedia of J.R.R. Tolkien's World (available only in Romanian) and many monographs, studies and articles. The Romanian edition of his first novel, Insula fără anotimpuri (The Island without Seasons) has been released in 2019. The Spanish edition, entitled La Isla del Laberinto (The Island of the Labyrinth), is also available since March, 2021 (here). The English edition will be published next year (2022).  

On the issue of the Motu Proprio 'Traditionis Custodes', Chairman of the LMS Joseph Shaw launches our second series of the popular podcast series with an in depth analysis of the recent apostolic letter on the restrictions of the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass.  Documents quoted and referred to in the Podcast: Pope Francis, Apostolic Letter Traditionis Custodes (2021): https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/motu_proprio/documents/20210716-motu-proprio-traditionis-custodes.html   Pope Francis, Letter to Bishops (2021): https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/events/event.dir.html/content/vaticanevents/en/2021/7/16/lettera-vescovi-liturgia.html   1971 Petition of cultural figures in support of the Traditional Mass: https://lms.org.uk/1971-english-indult-recollection   Survey of Mass-goers showing that the those attending the Traditional Mass are more orthodox than others: https://liturgyguy.com/2019/02/24/national-survey-results-what-we-learned-about-latin-mass-attendees   Pope Paul VI, Apostolic Letter Sacrificium Laudis (1966) https://lms.org.uk/sacrificium_laudis   Pope Paul VI, General Audience Address 26th November 1969 (value of the Traditional Mass): https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/changes-in-mass-for-greater-apostolate-8969   Pope John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Dominicae Cenae (1980): https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/letters/1980/documents/hf_jp-ii_let_19800224_dominicae-cenae.html   Pope John Paul II, Address to the Congregation for Divine Worship (2002): https://adoremus.org/2001/12/pope-john-paul-ii-addresses-liturgical-assembly/   Pope Benedict XVI, Letter to Bishops (2007): https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/letters/2007/documents/hf_ben-xvi_let_20070707_lettera-vescovi.html   Pope Francis, Press Conference on return from Chile (2013): https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2013/july/documents/papa-francesco_20130728_gmg-conferenza-stampa.html   Pope John Paul II, Apostolic Letter Ecclesia Dei Adflicta (1988): https://lms.org.uk/ecclesia-dei-adflicta   Pope John Paul II, Audience with Monks of Le Barroux (1990) (in French): https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/fr/speeches/1990/september/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_19900928_s-madeleine.html   Letter from Cardinal Angelo Felici to Fr Josef Bisig, 1999, quoted from Leo Darroch Una Voce: the History of the Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce 1964-2003 (2018) p348 Cardinal Raymond Burke on the merger of Missals: reported in the National Catholic Reporter, 2011: https://www.ncregister.com/news/cardinal-burke-talks-about-rome-the-mass-canon-law-and-u-s-culture   Cardinal Robert Sarah on the same subject: reported in the National Catholic Reporter 2017: https://www.ncregister.com/blog/could-cardinal-sarah-bring-an-end-to-the-liturgy-wars   Sacred Congregation for Rites, Instruction Inter Oecumenici (1964): https://www.divinumofficium.com/www/horas/Help/Rubrics/Interoecumenici.html   FIUV Position Paper on Liturgical Pluralism: http://www.unavoce.ru/pdf/FIUV_PP/FIUV_PP6_PluralismFinal.pdf   David Mills in the Catholic Herald, Free the Latin Mass, for the good of the Church and the people who need it, 6thJuly 2021. https://catholicherald.co.uk/free-the-latin-mass-the-church-will-benefit-in-ways-she-wont-otherwise/   Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, 1988 Address to the Bishops of Chile: https://www.ccwatershed.org/2019/11/07/13-july-1988-josef-cardinal-ratzinger   Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Salt of the Earth (1996): A community is calling its very being into question when it suddenly declares that what until now was its holiest and highest possession is strictly forbidden and when it makes the longing for it seem downright indecent.   Rita Ferrone, A Living Catholic Tradition: Pope Francis unifies the Roman Rite in Commonweal 23rd July 2021: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/living-catholic-tradition   A few books of the Reform of the Reform: Fr Aiden Nichols OP Looking at the Liturgy: A Critical View of Its Contemporary Form (1996) Fr Jonathan Robinson The Mass and Modernity: Walking to Heaven Backward (2005) Mgr Andrew Burnham Heaven and Earth in Little Space: The Re-enchantment of Liturgy (2011) Fr Michael Lang Turning Towards the Lord: Orientation in Liturgical Prayer (2014)   Pope Benedict Letter to Bishops (2007): https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/letters/2007/documents/hf_ben-xvi_let_20070707_lettera-vescovi.html   Pope Benedict XVI, with Peter Seewald: Last Testament: In His Own Words (2017) Pope Paul VI, General Audience Address 19th November 1969 (putting an end to uncertainty): https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/mass-is-the-same-8968

Dr. Jules Gomes, B.A., B.D., M.Th., Ph.D. (Cantab) is Rome Correspondent for Church Militant: He is a journalist, academic and editor of the Rebel Priest blog. He came home to the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church on January 5, 2020.

The New Age: Roger Buck talks to Joseph Shaw   Continuing from Part 1: What is the New Age?  Part 2: Theosophy and the roots of the New Age    Roger Buck was born in California, was brought up partly there and partly in England, and has also lived in various places on the Continent. He is currently living in Ireland. He spent close to three years living at the New Age centre at Findhorn in Scotland, and nearly twenty years in the New Age milieu, before his conversion. Roger's conversion story is described in his book Cor Jesu Sacratissimum, which defends the Latin Mass and details the tragedy of the post-Vatican II Church.

The New Age: Roger Buck talks to Joseph Shaw Part 1: What is the New Age?  Part 2 : Theosophy and the roots of the New Age   Roger Buck was born in California, was brought up partly there and partly in England, and has also lived in various places on the Continent. He is currently living in Ireland. He spent close to three years living at the New Age centre at Findhorn in Scotland, and nearly twenty years in the New Age milieu, before his conversion. Roger's conversion story is described in his book Cor Jesu Sacratissimum, which defends the Latin Mass and details the tragedy of the post-Vatican II Church.  

In the second part of this Iota Unum Podcast with Catholic writer and researcher Kevin Symonds, Joseph Shaw discusses conspiracies and conspiracy theories. 

In the latest series of talks from the Latin Mass Society, Joseph Shaw discusses with Kevin Symonds, Catholic writer and researcher, the Origin of the prayer of St Michael, the third secret of Fatima and was Bugnini a freemason?

Maria Madise works for Voice of the Family and is the editor of their monthly magazine Calx Mariae Among other things, Maria discusses the original ‘schemata' presented to the Second Vatican Council, which were intended as the first drafts of Council documents. Nearly all of these schemata were rejected, when the more progressive Council Fathers sought to gain control of the Council's organisation. The schema on Chastity, Marriage, the Family and Virginity represents a very useful summary of the magisterium on these closely related topics, and can be seen in English here. Maria also drew attention to an initiative of Voice of the Family, Our Lady of the Rosary Family Catechism, a video programme of the entire Baltimore Catechism, presented by Fr Anthony Pillari, and to Bishop Athanasius Schneider's ‘Twelve Steps to Surviving as a Catholic Family'.

Daniel Dolley holds a DPhil in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford. He has studied indigenous religions within the Amazon region, and also on the western side of the Andes where he conducted his own ethnographic field research. The indigenous cultures of these two lowland regions have much in common and are distinct from those of the Andes. Daniel's article in the Catholic Herald, which anticipates some of the themes of this podcast in relation to the controversial Amazon Synod of October 2019, can be seen here; a letter in response to his article, from Dr Pia Joliffe reflecting on her similar experiences in Chiang Mai in Thailand, is reproduced here. Following the Amazon Synod the Holy Father gave his response to it in the document Querida Amazonia, which Daniel commented on in a further article for the Catholic Herald, reproduced here. For the full text of the Amazon Synod see here. For more of Daniel's writing visit his Academia.edu profile: Daniel J Dolley -Academia.edu

In the Second of the Latin Mass Society's Iota Unum Series, Dr John Rao speaks with Dr Shaw on the destruction of New York in Lockdown, on the impact of the recent riots in the USA and Jacobinism and the French Revolution. John Rao received his DPhil from Oxford University, and for many years has been Associate Professor at St John's University, New York. He is also the Director of the Roman Forum which was founded by Dietrich von Hildebrand. Among other things the Roman Forum organises an annual (in normal times) Summer Symposium in the northern Italian town of Gardone Riviera. This is a major gathering of traditionally-minded Catholic writers and academics from all over Europe and North America, whose proceedings have also appeared in book form, notably Luther and His Progeny which is edited by Dr Rao. A great many of Dr Rao's talks can be downloaded (for a small fee) from the Keep the Faith website associated with the Latin Mass Magazine; the Roman Forum Church History Lectures are available on SoundCloud, and a huge number of articles and other writings can be found on the Dr Rao's website For the Whole Christ. Dr Rao's lectures have also found their way into book form, notably his Centenary Meditation on a Quest for Purification Gone Mad. Other recent books of his include a discussion of the history of the Church, Black Legends and the Light of the World and Removing the Blindfold: Nineteenth Century Catholics and the Myth of Modern Freedom.

What is the relationship between Gregorian Chant and prayer. Matthew is the Director of Music at Mayfield School and a Regional Director of Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge. A Cambridge graduate, with a doctoral thesis on twelfth-century chant, he was involved in singing Gregorian Chant at the Catholic Chaplaincy, Fisher House, and has since then done much to support chant in both Forms of the Roman Rite, with singing and training as well as lectures around the country. Anyone wanting to hear more of Matthew can listen to a series of podcasts featuring on Radio Maria England: "The Rosary in Music" (search here). Those interested in Gregorian Chant can find a huge amount of material on the website of the Church Music Association of America, MusicaSacra.com (resources page).

The superior of the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer (the Transalpine Redemptorists), based at Golgotha Monastery on the Orkney island of Papa Stronsay. A completely Traditional Order, their canonical status was regularised after having reconciled with the Holy See following Summorum Pontificum, having previously worked for many years with the SSPX.

Chris Hodkinson is the director of the Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge, one of the leading influences in the revival of Gregorian Chant in England in recent years.

From Kazakhstan, Bishop Schneider is well known as the author of Dominus Est - It is the Lord! - a defence of the traditional manner of receiving Communion.

Professor Thomas Pink is a lecturer at King's College, London, and is known for his work on the fraught topic of religious liberty.

The critically acclaimed author of several biographies of Catholic literary figures, including Chesterton, Belloc, Tolkien and Oscar Wilde, as well as Literary Converts - the conversion stories of a string of early 20th century English writers who were received into the Catholic Church. He has recently written his autobiography 'Race with the Devil' - the story of his conversion from a papist-hating member of the National Front to a devout Catholic.