Bücher von Joseph Shaw

The decline of the Catholic Church in the developed world has been accelerated in the last decade by a devastating series of scandals involving sexual abuse by Catholic clergy. But just as clerical abuse fits in to a wider story about the abuse of power in the modern "sexual marketplace," so the decline of Catholic church-going and religious belief finds its context in a wider collapse of cultural institutions and shared beliefs: the crisis of modernity.This is no source of comfort for Catholics, since in recent decades the Church has provided neither shelter from secular trends nor a compelling analysis of the crisis. In these essays, Dr Joseph Shaw examines what the Church has in common with the wider world as it passes through this crisis as well as the perennial wisdom of her tradition that shows us how to escape it.The first part examines the place of the ancient Catholic liturgy in modernity, defending it, against the misunderstandings of modernists, as something supremely suited to engage our deepest instincts towards the worship of God. The second part turns to the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council and addresses a series of lines of attack on those Catholics attached to the traditional Latin Mass-notably the attempt to link them to the crisis of clerical abuse. The third part addresses one of the most contested issues of our times, sexuality and gender roles, and asks what, if anything, the Church can still say about them.Dr Shaw approaches these explosive topics with seriousness and honesty, leaving behind the point-scoring of social media and partisan journalism while not shying away from unpopular teachings and uncomfortable conclusions.

Position Papers on the 1962 Missale Romanum produced by the FIUV, 3rd Edition. 1: The Service of the Altar by Men and Boys 2: Liturgical Piety & Participation 3: The Manner of Receiving Communion 4: Liturgical Orientation 5: The Vulgate 6: Liturgical Pluralism & the EF 7: Latin as a Liturgical Language 8: Prefaces 9: Silence & Inaudibility 10: Eucharistic Fast 11: Evangelisation and Western Culture 12: Latin in Seminaries 13: Holy Days of Obligation 14a: Holy Week Reform of 1955, 1: General Comments 14b: Part 2: The Liturgies 15: The Lectionary 16: The Proclamation of Lections in Latin 17: Reception of Communion Under One Kind 18: The Missa Lecta 19: The Kiss of Peace 20: Septuagesima, and Vigils and Octaves 21: The EF and the Eastern Churches 22: Headcoverings in Church in the EF 23: The EF & China 24: Prayers for the Persecuted & Leonine Prayers 25: Sub-Saharan Africa 26: The EF and Men 27: Tradition, Reform, & Restoration