Una Voce America

As the world turns darker and Holy Mother Church faces increasing challenges, the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter stands in medio ecclesiae–in the midst of the Church–keeping the flame of tradition alive and offering that flame to an ailing world, that all people everywhere might know the light of the risen Christ.

We are creating a space in the international media to serve all mankind just as we have always served our parishioners: to help people go to heaven.

In this new channel, we will be bringing a Thomistic and traditional perspective to the issues of the day. What is at the root of our society’s devaluation of children? How does Catholic teaching align with the ideas of leading traditional and conservative thinkers such as Sir Roger Scruton or Dr. Jordan Peterson? How can young men find direction and be lifted from hopelessness to energetic action? How can busy homeschooling moms turn their ordinary actions into prayer?

Join Fr. Gerard Saguto, FSSP and Fr. Simon Harkins, FSSP as we begin the conversation on August 31st, featuring a fascinating interview with Abby Johnson on her pro-life work and her recent discovery of the beauty of the sacred liturgy.

The Missive

Dr. Scott Hahn offers reflections on the traditional Latin Mass.

A lone young priest in a cassock walked in a downpour toward the scene of a horrific wreck of tractor-trailers and cars on a Pennsylvania interstate and gave the last rites to a truck driver, the lone fatality of the crash.

Unbeknownst to him, a bystander photographed the moment, which captured the imagination of social media and went viral. The priest, Father John Killackey, was identified as a member of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter at the Mater Dei Latin Mass community in Harrisburg.

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Former employee of Planned Parenthood, Johnson converted to Catholicism in 2013.

“At first, when I sat there…I was a little offended. Like, ‘Why am I not a part of this?’And then I thought, ‘Well, why do I need to be a part? I don’t have anything to do with it. That’s between the Priest and God. God doesn’t need me to say these prayers.’ And it just became so apparent that God doesn’t need me to be a part of the consecration.”

She also said that she “was struck by just how masculine the service felt…everything was led by priests. It wasn’t a laity led service.”

“For the first time in a while…I feel very reinvigorated in my faith,” she exclaimed during our conversation today. “I’m excited to go to Mass! I haven’t felt that way in a long time…It doesn’t feel like a chore anymore!”

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Poland adds Latin to core curriculum to help pupils “understand foundation of Western civilisation”

Bishop Joseph Strickland discusses what inspired him to celebrate the extraordinary form of the Mass on June 11, 2020.

I later learned that if and when a bishop says the Latin Mass, it’s always a pontifical Mass, where the bishop always represents his people. It’s intense. If you knew “Joe Strickland,” a kid from the back country of Texas, you’d know that “this guy’s simple. He doesn’t like those complicated things.” Yet I see it and I desire it for him. It’s so clear that this liturgy is not about us — it’s fully about Him. I want to honor Him.

Thank God we only must whisper them in this rite, because I am not sure I would have been able to speak above that whisper, so struck I was at the profundity. It was the first time in my life that I had ever said those words in Latin, and I could hardly get them out. It’s indescribable, really.

Full interview here

A group of filmmakers is working to create a “stunning” documentary about the Traditional Latin Mass that will show the “beauty of our timeless traditional liturgy” with the hope that such a film will help “begin to restore the Church.”

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A 12-week curriculum of live webinars for priests to better understand the liturgical requisites and perfect their sacred actions for the traditional Roman Mass. The webinars will be a refresher for veterans and introduction for beginners.

Romanitas Press Webinars

With the traditional Latin Mass now more popular than it has been in half a century, an increasing interest in traditional Catholic books is also taking place.

Whether Latin-English missals, liturgical commentaries, catechisms, writings of saints, modesty manuals or extensive and elaborate prayer books, more Catholics have been buying titles that unequivocally present the perennial teachings and practices of the Church. This has led to new publishers coming into existence — most of which are small, but one of which already sells more than 100,000 books annually.

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“St. Mary’s Church will serve as the diocesan worship site for those desiring the Extraordinary Form of the Mass, more familiarly known as the Tridentine Mass or the Traditional Latin Mass.”

Bishop Lucia also said it was his “intention to bring a Society of Apostolic Life” to St. Mary’s to conduct the “centuries-old rites.”

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