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What the Fathers and Saints valued and defended, we also feel called to value and defend An interview with Dr Joseph Shaw, the new President of the Una Voce Federation Dr Joseph Shaw is well known to the readers of Calx Mariae as a regular contributor to the magazine. In October this year, Dr Shaw was elected President of the Una Voce Federation, the lay movement that promotes and defends the Traditional Latin Mass worldwide. We were delighted to have the opportunity to interview Dr Shaw in his new capacity and hear his thoughts on the future of the Traditional Mass, its significance for family life and much more. Dr Joseph Shaw has a DPhil in Philosophy from Oxford University, where he also currently teaches. He has published on Ethics and Philosophy of Religion and has edited The Case for Liturgical Restoration: Una Voce Position Papers on the Extraordinary Form (Angelico Press). He is the Chairman of the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales and the father of nine children.
As a grouping of lay-led associations, we are CALX MARIAE: Congratulations on your able to say and do things, publicly, which religious, election as President of the Una Voce clerics,andpriestlyassociationscannot.Butweare Federation. For people who don’t know notsimplykey-boardwarriors:werepresent peo ple who are at the coal-face of organising Masses, about the Federation how would you negotiating with bishops, singing and serving and describe it to them? teachingLatinandsoon.Thismeansthatwehavea JOSEPH SHAW: Thefirstlayassociationsetupvery realistic view of what can and cannot be done,
what helps and what does not help, of the need for to defend the Church’s ancient liturgy was Una quiet diplomacyaswellaspublicgestures. Voce France in 1964. Other national associations WhenweheardlastyearthattheCongregation followed,usuallycalledthe“UnaVoce”or“Latin fortheDoctrineof theFaithweresurveyingbishops Mass Society” of their countries. In 1965 a Fed about the implementation of Summorum Pontificum, eration of such groups was established, the - Foed thedocumentof PopeBenedictXVIwhicheased eratioInternationalisUnaVoce(FIUV:UnaVoce restrictions ontheolderMassinwe ,702 conduct International, or the Una Voce Federation), with ed a survey of our own so that the laity attached to six members; today it has more than forty. The thistoliturgy FederationisabletorepresentinRomeand the could also have their feelings known in Rome. We had responses from 5 countries, and media the needs and concerns of our member asdetailedreportsfrom36dioceses. sociationsfromallovertheworld.
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