Nobel Prize Winner: I Really Like the Mass And I Prefer the Latin Mass"

Jon Olav Fosse, a Norwegian author, translator and playwright, was awarded the controversial Nobel Prize for Literature in 2023. In June 2024, he explained to RivistaStudio.com why he became a Catholic.
"When I saw the cathedral [of Milan] just now, I felt a great distance. Compared to the religious context I know in Norway.
For years I was really fascinated by the Quakers: no priests, no sacraments, nothing. As simple as possible. Just a few chairs, sitting in a circle, concentrating on the inner light that God has given us.
It was my spiritual place, and it still is. They do not drink alcohol, they are pacifists.
And I have no respect for authority, I never took my hat off when I met a priest. (laughs).
But one meeting a month with the Quakers was not enough, I needed something more, and I ended up with Catholicism.
Mainly because I really like the Mass. And I prefer the Latin mass. And these liturgies, these repetitions...
And through repetition you really stop and think about what …More