The LMS at We Believe

Last weekend the Latin Mass Society had a presence at the second We Believe Festival, which took place at Oscott Seminary near Birmingham.

Anne Widdecombe, RIP

Me in First Things. It begins:

Widdecombe’s murder has been a tremendous shock to British politics. She was the most prominent British Catholic politician whose faith actually informed her politics—unlike former prime ministers Tony Blair and Boris Johnson, or our presumptive prime minister, Andy Burnham. She converted to Anglicanism in her thirties, and to Catholicism in 1993, and she spent her long political career defending human life and all sorts of causes that she considered just. At the same time, she appeared on numerous television programs and never took herself too seriously. This combination of qualities—a sense of fun, a disinterested commitment to justice, and a powerful supernatural faith—is one that her detractors are completely unable to understand.

Read the whole thing there.

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Five Years of Traditionis Custodes

Me in the Catholic Herald: this is the conclusion.

Cardinal Arthur Roche, Prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship, will forever be associated with his Dicastery’s explanation of why details of Traditional Masses should be excluded from parish newsletters:

“There is no intention in these provisions to marginalise the faithful who are rooted in the previous form of celebration: they are only meant to remind them that this is a concession to provide for their good (in view of the common use of the one lex orandi of the Roman Rite) and not an opportunity to promote the previous rite.”

If the aim of Traditionis custodes was indeed to marginalise the faithful rooted in the Traditional Mass, then it might be said to have had a measure of success, though this has come at the expense of promoting the “previous rite” by putting a bright spotlight on it. Otherwise it is much more difficult to see what it has achieved, or still might achieve, that Pope Francis and his advisers might actually have wanted to achieve.

It is time for Pope Leo to clear up the mess.

 Read the whole thing there.

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LMS Latin Course: photos

For the first time the Latin Mass Society has two Residential Latin Courses in one year, because last year the summer course was over-subscribed. Last week the second of the 2026 courses took place, at the Carmelite Retreat Centre, Boar's Hill near Oxford.



It is a small event, but year by year we have helped a lot of priests, seminarians, and lay people recover their heritage of Latin, and of other aspects of Catholic tradition. Participants have daily Mass, they sing Compline together, and this year we had a Missa cantata for the feast of the Visitation. We had two priests, an Oratorian novice and a young man about to try his vocation with the Institute of the Good Shepherd. Latin students of all abilities should try it out, for an intense week of learning in a relaxed Catholic atmosphere.