Latin Mass Society

Dr Joseph Shaw, The Liturgy, the Family, and the Crisis of Modernity

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.

Iota Unum Talk with Caroline Farey - Does Morality affect Beauty in the work of Artists?

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)

LMS AGM TALK July 2022 : Dr Joseph Shaw on Traditionis Custodes a year on.

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

Iota Unum Talk No. 14 -Pierpaolo Finaldi ‘On the vocation of the Catholic author’

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.

Iota Unum Talk No.13 - Dr Jeremy Pilch ‘St John Henry Newman and Our Lady Mediatrix of All Graces’

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

 

Iota Unum Talk No 12 - Dr Tim Stanley : ’Whatever Happened to Tradition?’

‘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

Iota unum Talk 11 - Prof Tom Pink : Papal Monarchy

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.

 

Iota Unum Talk 9 (Part 2) : What is a Catholic Community? - Family life, Asceticism, and Contemplation. Prof Robert Lazu Kmita talks to Joseph Shaw

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).

 

Iota Unum Talk No. 10 : The Church and Tradition in the former Communist Bloc: Russia, Poland, and Romania.

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.

Iota Unum Talk No. 9 (Part 1) : What is a Catholic Community? - From St Benedict to the Internet. Prof Robert Lazu Kmita talks to Joseph Shaw

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).