The book, published by St Mary's University Press, outlines the proceedings of a conference on liturgical reconciliation: testimonies, theologians' responses and the ensuing discussions, with contributions from Fr Dominic White OP, Rev. Dr Liam Hayes, Canon Dr Robert Gibbons, Prof. Medi Volpe, Archpriest Paul Elliott, and Sr Marie Trainar.

This podcast presents the talk given at the launch event by author and liturgical scholar Matthew Hazell

The book, published by St Mary's University Press, outlines the proceedings of a conference on liturgical reconciliation: testimonies, theologians' responses and the ensuing discussions, with contributions from Fr Dominic White OP, Rev. Dr Liam Hayes, Canon Dr Robert Gibbons, Prof. Medi Volpe, Archpriest Paul Elliott, and Sr Marie Trainar.

This podcast presents the talk given at the launch event by the Brompton Oratory's Fr Michael Lang. 

The book, published by St Mary's University Press, outlines the proceedings of a conference on liturgical reconciliation: testimonies, theologians' responses and the ensuing discussions, with contributions from Fr Dominic White OP, Rev. Dr Liam Hayes, Canon Dr Robert Gibbons, Prof. Medi Volpe, Archpriest Paul Elliott, and Sr Marie Trainar.

This podcast presents the talk given at the launch event by LMS Chairman Dr Joseph Shaw. 

in the work of Artists?

With special reference to:

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

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

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC ISBN: 9781472974129

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.

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

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.

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.

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’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

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.

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).