Episodes
Monday Jun 27, 2022
Monday Jun 27, 2022
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
Monday Jun 27, 2022
Iota Unum Talk No 12 - Dr Tim Stanley : ’Whatever Happened to Tradition?’
Monday Jun 27, 2022
Monday Jun 27, 2022
‘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
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781472974129
Monday Jun 27, 2022
Iota unum Talk 11 - Prof Tom Pink : Papal Monarchy
Monday Jun 27, 2022
Monday Jun 27, 2022
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.
Friday Sep 10, 2021
Friday Sep 10, 2021
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).
Friday Aug 20, 2021
Friday Aug 20, 2021
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.
Friday Aug 13, 2021
Friday Aug 13, 2021
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).
Friday Aug 06, 2021
Iota Unum Talk No. 8 - ‘After Traditionis Custodes‘ by Joseph Shaw
Friday Aug 06, 2021
Friday Aug 06, 2021
On the issue of the Motu Proprio 'Traditionis Custodes', Chairman of the LMS Joseph Shaw launches our second series of the popular podcast series with an in depth analysis of the recent apostolic letter on the restrictions of the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass.
Documents quoted and referred to in the Podcast:
Pope Francis, Apostolic Letter Traditionis Custodes (2021):
Pope Francis, Letter to Bishops (2021):
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):
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):
Pope Francis, Press Conference on return from Chile (2013):
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):
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):
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
Thursday Mar 11, 2021
Thursday Mar 11, 2021
The New Age: Roger Buck talks to Joseph Shaw
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.
Friday Mar 05, 2021
Friday Mar 05, 2021
The New Age: Roger Buck talks to Joseph Shaw
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.
Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
In the second part of this Iota Unum Podcast with Catholic writer and researcher Kevin Symonds, Joseph Shaw discusses conspiracies and conspiracy theories.