InfoCatolica: Spanish-language interview with the President

2019 Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage: procession to St Peters, crossing
the bridge towards the Castel San Angelo

D. Joseph Shaw es Doctor en Filosofía. Tutor titular en el St. Benet’s Hall, de la Universidad de Oxford, es además presidente de la Latin Mass Society de Inglaterra y Gales, asociación para la defensa y promoción de la misa tradicional, y ha sido recientemente nombrado presidente de la Federación Internacional Una Voce (FIUV), en la que previamente había ejercido varios años como secretario. Shaw pertenece igualmente al Consejo organizador de la peregrinación Populus Summorum Pontificum, integrada por sacerdotes y fieles de la liturgia antigua, que todos los años acuden a Roma en la festividad de Cristo Rey según el calendario de 1962. Prolífico autor de numerosos artículos sobre temas litúrgicos, ha sido además editor de los “Position Papers” (informes de situación), que la FIUV publicó, con estudios sobre distintas materias relacionadas con la liturgia romana clásica.

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See the interview in English here.

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Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2021

The FIUV is part of the organising board for the pilgrimage.

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Gregorius Magnus 12, Winter 2021, published

I am pleased to announce the Winter 2021 issue of Gregorius Magnus is available.

Gregorius Magnus 12, Winter 2021, is now available as a PDF, and on ISSUU, optimised for mobile devices.

In this edition:

Reactions to Traditionis Custodes

From members' magazines: Peter Kwasniewski on proclaiming the Gospel to the north; Pope Francis and Dante; Remembering Mgr Richard Soseman; Cardinal Merry del Val.

Features: J.R.R.Tolkien by Robert Lazu Kmita; Traditional walking pilgrimage in Spain.

50th Anniversary of the English Indult; Petitions from 1966 to 1997.

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Message from the President, Dr Joseph Shaw

To the Member Associations of the Federation, and all our supporters and friends.

It is with some apprehension that I take up the role of President of the FIUV, in light of my personal limitations, and at a time when the situation of the Church’s ancient Latin liturgy is more difficult than it has been for many years. Yet I do so with confidence in the strength of the Federation, represented above all by our membership and support base. This is larger and more active than it has ever been in our history, and the current difficulties are stimulating further growth.

Over the last decade I have been closely involved in two large-scale projects undertaken by the Federation: the production of the Position Papers on the 1962 Missal, which began to appear individually in 2012 and were published as a book in 2019, and the Report on the implementation of Summorum Pontificum for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which we submitted to the Holy See in July 2020. These utilised different aspects of the deep reserves of experience which exist among the Federation’s members and supporters: the Position Papers calling on their intellectual resources, and the Report on their practical knowledge of their local situations. No other organisation could have undertaken either project so successfully, and they demonstrate the Federation’s irreplaceable role in the traditionalist movement.

New President and Officers of the FIUV

Joseph Shaw on the Latin Mass Society's
Walking Pilgrimage to Walsingham, Aug 2021

At the General Assembly held (for the first time) online, on Saturday 2nd October 2021, a new Council and President were elected. The Council subsequently confirmed the Officers.

The outgoing President, Felipe Alanis Suarez (Una Voce Mexico) had served three consecutive terms of office; he remains on the Council as the First Vice President.

The new President is Joseph Shaw (Latin Mass Society, England and Wales); he had previously been the Secretary.

The new Secretary is Christopher Cordeiro (Una Voce South Africa).

The Treasurer remains Monika Rheinschmitt (Pro Missa Tridentina, Germany).

The full Council is listed here.

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FIUV Video series

The Una Voce Federation has created a series of illustrative videos that show some of the most relevant aspects of the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) in order that more people can get to know and appreciate the richness of our Catholic Heritage.

Our YouTube channel is here; they are also collected on this page.

Here are the two most recent. More are planned.

The celebration of Mass ad orientem

Silence in Mass

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