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Catholics should care about Labour’s attack on Latin in schools

Jan 17, 2025 | catholicherald.co.uk | Joseph Shaw

The Labour government seems to be taking a very ideological approach to education policy, apparently reversing many of the policies of the previous Conservative administration on principle. The champion of traditional discipline and rigour, headmistress Katherine Birbalsingh, recently laid out the strands of the new approach in the Spectator. One that should be of particular concern for Catholics is the attack on the teaching of Latin.
Fight the Anti-Advent

Dec 10, 2024 | catholic.com | Joseph Shaw

Nevertheless, Advent is a carefully calibrated penitential season. Whereas there is no gloria, there is an Alleluia. Advent has not, historically, usually been regarded as requiring the same degree of penance as Lent. A penitential season leading up to Christmas enters the Church’s historical record in France in the year 480, with fasting three days a week from St. Martin’s Day (November 11), but as it spread to other countries, it became shorter and less severe.
Must I Go to Mass on Monday?

Nov 19, 2024 | catholic.com | Joseph Shaw

The Church’s Code of Canon Law lists ten holy days of obligation in addition to Sunday (1246.1): Christmas, Epiphany, the Ascension, Corpus Christi, January 1 (see below), the Immaculate Conception, the Assumption, St. Joseph, Ss. Peter and Paul, and All Saints. Readers may be surprised that there are so many, and some may be surprised that Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, the Church’s only Fast days, are not among them.
Home schooling protects children's bodies and souls – it can also leave them smart too - Catholic Herald

Oct 22, 2024 | catholicherald.co.uk | Joseph Shaw

The only people involved in a child’s education who have an overview of the whole process, from babyhood to adulthood, and who truly know the child, and his or her needs and ambitions, are parents. They are their children’s primary educators, in a sense that encompasses the moral relationship between parent and child, and the practical and biological relationship.
Seeking the conversion of England on the Road to Walsingham

Aug 29, 2024 | catholicherald.co.uk | Joseph Shaw

Every country in which the Catholic Faith has been planted has its holy places. In the words of the Blessed Virgin Mary, reported in the Pynson Ballad – the earliest written source on the shrine of Walsingham – a holy place is one in which “All that me seke there shall fynde socoure” (all that seek me there shall find succour).
John Paul II and the Way of Beauty

Jul 29, 2024 | catholic.com | Joseph Shaw

Pope St. John Paul II wrote twenty-one years ago,[We should not] overlook the positive contribution made by the wise use of the cultural treasures of the Church. . . . Artistic beauty . . . a sort of echo of the Spirit of God, is a symbol pointing to the mystery, an invitation to seek out the face of God made visible in Jesus of Nazareth (Ecclesia in Europa 60). This observation would not have surprised Catholics in previous centuries.
Close to Home - 27 East

Jul 17, 2024 | 27east.com | Joseph Shaw

Opinions East Hampton Press / Southampton Press / Editorial / Editorial / Sag Harbor Express / Editorials / 2273249 Joseph P. Shaw on Jul 17, 2024 This is an editorial, but the Editorial Board has given me the chance to write a personal message, one that we all endorse but filtered through my personal experience. You... more We're happy you are enjoying our content. You've read 4 of your 7 free articles this month.
Petitions defending Latin Mass keep rolling in

Jul 16, 2024 | catholicherald.co.uk | Joseph Shaw

The calls on Pope Francis not to impose fresh restrictions on the Traditional Mass have been joined by two more joint letters. Both have been published with the same intention as the open letter by Scottish Catholic composer Sir James MacMillan that was published 3 July in The Times to much acclaim.
4 Benefits to Silence in the Mass

Jul 9, 2024 | catholic.com | Joseph Shaw

In the Church’s liturgical tradition, the use of silence, or the recitation of texts very quietly, can have four distinct functions. First, for the celebrant to recite a text silently can be a sign that the text is addressed not to the people, but to God. This is why the “priestly prayers” such as the Lavabo (“Wash away my iniquity . . .”) are said silently in both the traditional and the reformed versions of the Mass.
Non-Catholics Come to Rescue the TLM?

Jul 5, 2024 | onepeterfive.com | Joseph Shaw

Above: Jewish Composer András Schiff, one of several significant non-Catholic signers. All traditional Catholics know the story: that Agatha Christie and various others signed a petition to Pope Paul VI in 1971 asking him not to prohibit the celebration of the Traditional Mass, and he relented: at least, he allowed it to be celebrated publicly in England and Wales, an “Indult” (permission) that was extended to the rest of the world in 1984.