Hugh Ross Williamson: an English Layman against the New Mass
By Luca Fumagalli Reprinted in 2021 by Arouca Press in a single volume entitled The Great Betrayal. Thoughts on the Destruction of the Mass, the pamphlets The Modern Mass and The Great Betrayal – …More
By Luca Fumagalli
Reprinted in 2021 by Arouca Press in a single volume entitled The Great Betrayal. Thoughts on the Destruction of the Mass, the pamphlets The Modern Mass and The Great Betrayal – both critical of Montini’s Novus Ordo – saw the light of day in 1969 and 1970 respectively. Their author, Hugh Ross Williamson (1901-1978), was a convert to Catholicism, historian and former Anglican clergyman, one of those English Catholics like Evelyn Waugh or Michael Davies who disapproved of the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council. In 1964 he was one of the founders of the Latin Mass Society, of which he was the first vice-president, and from then on he always defended the traditional Mass.
The first of the two pamphlets, The Modern Mass, is an examination of the liturgical changes made by Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI. Cranmer, who was the leading exponent of Anglicanism in the period between 1547 and 1553, wanted to …More
Reprinted in 2021 by Arouca Press in a single volume entitled The Great Betrayal. Thoughts on the Destruction of the Mass, the pamphlets The Modern Mass and The Great Betrayal – both critical of Montini’s Novus Ordo – saw the light of day in 1969 and 1970 respectively. Their author, Hugh Ross Williamson (1901-1978), was a convert to Catholicism, historian and former Anglican clergyman, one of those English Catholics like Evelyn Waugh or Michael Davies who disapproved of the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council. In 1964 he was one of the founders of the Latin Mass Society, of which he was the first vice-president, and from then on he always defended the traditional Mass.
The first of the two pamphlets, The Modern Mass, is an examination of the liturgical changes made by Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI. Cranmer, who was the leading exponent of Anglicanism in the period between 1547 and 1553, wanted to …More
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Angelo Santelli
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And of course the question surfaces, Why did Montini go along with this? And why did all Popes after him (Ratzinger's "permissu" showed he did not take seriously Pius V's Quo Primum.)
"Fortecę zdradzili nawet ci, którzy powinni jej bronić" (św. John Fisher do swoich kolegów apostatów)
"Słabe duchowieństwo, któremu brakuje stale łaski, aby zachować się stosownie do swej wiedzy" (Św. Tomasz More do swej córki)
- z motta do broszury The Modern Mass z czerwca 1969 roku.More
"Fortecę zdradzili nawet ci, którzy powinni jej bronić" (św. John Fisher do swoich kolegów apostatów)
"Słabe duchowieństwo, któremu brakuje stale łaski, aby zachować się stosownie do swej wiedzy" (Św. Tomasz More do swej córki)
- z motta do broszury The Modern Mass z czerwca 1969 roku.
"Słabe duchowieństwo, któremu brakuje stale łaski, aby zachować się stosownie do swej wiedzy" (Św. Tomasz More do swej córki)
- z motta do broszury The Modern Mass z czerwca 1969 roku.
Liam Ronan
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I tried to find some biographical information on Ross Williamson, but could not. Could someone please tell me where he was born and where did he die?