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Joseph Shaw, PhD

Why Our Forebears Defended Latin in the Liturgy

I have been reading the Traditionalist classic, Tito Cassini’s The Torn Tunic, first published (in Italian, La Tunica Stracciata) in 1967, reprinted by Angelico Press. It is an impassioned, indeed ferocious, statement of the case for liturgical traditionalism, written and published before the Novus Ordo Missae was promulgated. Casini, like most Catholics of the time,…

50 Years Ago: Non-Catholics Petitioned the Pope for the Latin Mass

Vladimir Ashkenazy and the “Agatha Christie” Petitioners What do the writers W.H. Auden, Evelyn Waugh, Jorge Borges and Francois Mauriac, have in common with the composer Benjamin Britten, the guitarist Andrés Segovia, and the philosophers Augusto Del Noce and Jacques Maritain? They all signed an international petition in 1966 begging the Holy See not to…

A Gadfly in Combat: The Rhetoric of Austen Ivereigh

Austen Ivereigh has done it again: driven his opponents (many of whom he helpfully names) into a defensive frenzy, which almost seems to prove the point he is making – namely, that these individuals get worked up too easily. I want to say something about Ivereigh’s modus operandi before saying something about the substantive issue, which has to do…

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