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ROME: The only way to describe the feeling here in Rome at the moment is that it’s the calm before the storm. The pundits, who have been tapped by the omnipresent media to tell the world what it all means, have been reduced to delivering semi-coherent sound bytes that serve to prove that no one, least of all the pundits, knows what the future the holds. The “experts” can’t quite make up their minds who Benedict XVI is—a semi-modernist or “God’s Rotweiler” of hard-line orthodoxy. And, of course, the para-Catholics—those liberal parasites who are too steeped in their own ignorance...

Current 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1990s 1980s     June/July 2004 To Belie The Obvious TruthJAMES LARSON"It has never been asserted that, so to say, nature in a physical sense is being changed. The transformation reaches down to a more profound level. Tradition has it that this is a metaphysical process. Christ lays hold upon what is, from a purely physical viewpoint, bread and wine, in its inmost being, so that it is changed from within and Christ truly gives himself in them." [Cardinal Ratzinger, God and the World, Believing and Living in Our Time, p.408 – all...

Return to Remnant Page   The Liturgical Movement How the traditional Roman Rite, over one thousand years old, was destroyed   Michael Davies REMNANT COLUMNIST, London   336 280th St., Osceola, WI 54020 Telephone: 715-294-4139   During the first session of the Second Vatican Council, in the debate on the Liturgy Constitution, Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani asked: “Are these Fathers planning a revolution?”  The Cardinal was old and partly blind.  He spoke from the heart without a text about a subject which moved him deeply, and continued:   Are we seeking to stir up wonder, or perhaps scandal among the...

The Last Letter from London Michael J. Matt Editor, The Remnant Thirty-three years ago this past June, Michael Davies submitted his first article for publication in these columns. I was five years old at the time. I don’t remember when he wasn’t a vital part of The Remnant family. For well over three decades his “Letter from London” came in month after month and year after year, keeping thousands of post-Vatican II Catholics informed and encouraged during three of the most turbulent decades in the history of the Church. After waging a two-year battle against cancer, Michael Davies, who was...

Michael Davies’ American Debut June 30, 1971 Editor’s Note: After the abundant coverage of the Pilgrimages to Chartres that has appeared in these columns over the last decade or so, I fear that the significance of the following report—Michael’s first in an American newspaper—may be overlooked. We must recall that when this report was published in June 1971, the New Mass was in its infant stage and the Liturgical Revolution’s destruction had not yet been realized. The Novus Ordo was still avant-garde, and those who opposed it were regularly lampooned as backward-looking Catholics who were utterly “out of sync” with...

Michael Davies, R.I.P Dear Friends: On Saturday, September 25, the great Michael Davies died. After a long and courageous battle with cancer, Mr. Davies was taken, perhaps mercifully by the Divine Judge, of a massive heart attack. The debt we all owe this extraordinary individual cannot be measured. We have lost a friend and mentor, the traditional movement has lost its uncontested elder statesman, and the Church has lost one of her greatest defenders of all time. Though he was not martyred, the name Davies can surely and without hesitation be placed alongside those of More, Fisher and Campion, as...

Michael Davies, 60, is a retired British teacher who has written 15 books of special interest to Catholic traditionalists. As president of Una Voce International-he has met recently with Archbishop Justin Rigali of St. Louis, and Cardinals Joseph Ratzinger, Alfons Stickler and Angelo Felici, all Vatican officials. He reports they are uniformly encouraging about Una Voce's goal to establish the traditional Latin Mass everywhere as an option for Catholics. SURSUM CORDA: You are now in your second year as President of the International Una Voce Federation. Could you tell us something about the origins of the federation? MICHAEL DAVIES: You...