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03/07/2025

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We are happy to announce the publication of this wonderful book of interviews with the late Monsignor Alfred Gilbey! Pur...
20/06/2025

We are happy to announce the publication of this wonderful book of interviews with the late Monsignor Alfred Gilbey!

Purchase it here and other online retailers:

https://aroucapress.com/alfred-gilbey

https://www.amazon.com/Absolute-Uniqueness-Monsignor-Alfred-Gilbey/dp/1998492362 (US)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Absolute-Uniqueness-Monsignor-Alfred-Gilbey/dp/1998492362 (UK)

The Absolute Uniqueness of Monsignor Alfred Gilbey: Final Interview
Alexander Haydon |
Foreword by Christopher Monckton
156 pages |
19.95 USD (pbk) | 29.95 USD (hc)

The celebrated priest Monsignor Alfred Gilbey (1901–98) was Chaplain to the (male) Catholic undergraduates of Cambridge from 1933 to 1965, and from some time in 1965 to 1997 the sole resident member of the Travellers Club, Pall Mall, from where he pursued a unique apostolate. His book We Believe, a commentary on the penny catechism, which had sold more than 15,000 copies before his death, had by then inspired more than forty vocations to the priesthood and religious life. It has no doubt inspired many more since. As Chaplain he received unusually large numbers into the Church. His charismatic personality and extraordinary charm, combined with his elegance of dress and manners, enabled him to attract many to the Faith who might have been put off by a more active evangelical approach. In him devotion fused with culture in a peculiarly harmonious way.

This book is the product of a series of interviews with Monsignor Gilbey in which, after expounding with his unique vividness and clarity the essential truths of the Faith, he ranges widely over a series of topics of a largely controversial nature. To all his answers Gilbey brings the wit and wisdom of his long experience as a priest and chaplain and the perspective of someone who has met and gotten to know a huge variety of people, along with his passionate love of Christ and His Holy Church.

WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
Catholics will be grateful for this reminder of the astounding figure of Mgr Alfred Gilbey, who is in danger of being forgotten, which brings out so vividly, in his own words, his wit, his steadfastness, and his kindness to others. Alexander Haydon has done us a great service in drawing out this fascinating figure, an active ingredient in English Catholic life from the age of Ronnie Knox to the time of Tony Blair. —Dr Joseph Shaw, ed., The Latin Mass and the Intellectuals

I am happy to see that this appreciation of Monsignor Gilbey has been written. I hope a new generation will continue to learn about this remarkable priest. —Fr Ronald Creighton-Jobe, C.O. (London Oratory)

For the best part of the twentieth century Mgr Alfred Gilbey appeared the Bertie Wooster of English Catholicism. More accurately, he was its Lord Peter Wimsey, conducting a highly successful private practice in drawing enquirers to the Faith. This book can be described as some of the leaves from his casebook. —Henry Sire, author of Father Martin D'Arcy: Philosopher of Christian Love
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On July 10, The Latin Mass Society will have a book launch. Please register if you wish to attend.

Date and time
Thursday, July 10 · 6:30 - 9pm GMT+1

Location
St Wilfrid Hall, London Oratory, Brompton Road, London, UK
Brompton Road London SW7 2RP United Kingdom
Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-the-absolute-uniqueness-of-monsignor-alfred-gilbey-tickets-1417116837609

19/06/2025

If someone has a copy of "The Golden Legend" by Jacobus de Voragine, could you find the exact source for the following quote? (It is on Wikipedia but I want to verify the source and I can't seem to find it online):

Cf. Golden Legend, quoted by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_of_the_Virgin: …of all the marriageable men of the house of David who had not yet taken a wife, each should bring a branch and lay it upon the altar, [that] one of the branches would burst into flower and upon it the Holy Ghost would come to rest in the form of a dove, according to the prophecy of Isaias, and that he to whom this branch belonged would be the one to whom the virgin should be espoused. Joseph was among the men who came.... [and he] placed a branch upon the altar, and straightaway it burst into bloom, and a dove came from Heaven and perched at its summit; whereby it was manifest to all that the Virgin was to become the spouse of Joseph.

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Thank you!

Gaetano Masciulo and Fr. Antoine-Marie de Araujo, FSVF, discuss the book, 𝑅𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝐿𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑦: 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑟 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛...
31/05/2025

Gaetano Masciulo and Fr. Antoine-Marie de Araujo, FSVF, discuss the book, 𝑅𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝐿𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑦: 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑟 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛? by Fr. Bernard Lucien | Translated by John Pepino | Foreword by Alan Fimister.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz5vCxPzLvY

Does the Council’s definition of religious liberty contradict the Church’s former magisterium? As Alan Fimister puts it:

“If the teaching of the ordinary and universal or the extraordinary magisterium can and has contradicted itself then this does not mean that the new teaching is true or that the Church has foundered but that Catholicism was never true and we are of all men most to be pitied.”

In this compelling study, Fr. Bernard Lucien along with a commentary by Fr. Antoine-Marie de Araujo, FSVF, seek to argue, without doing violence to the text, for a correct interpretation of the central teaching of Dignitatis Humanæ as well as for a correction of its deficiencies.

Purchase the book here: https://aroucapress.com/religious-liberty

Among the problems posed by Dignitatis Humanæ, there are the following: is its principal teaching infallible, or merely the “simply authentic Magisterium”? M...

This spiritual classic, out-of-print for 50 years, will finally be republished! We are deeply honoured to republish it w...
30/05/2025

This spiritual classic, out-of-print for 50 years, will finally be republished! We are deeply honoured to republish it with the permission of the Wu family. It will be available soon!

22/05/2025

We have good news. Our copies of "The Liturgical Rosary" have arrived in the fulfillment center. We are working hard in fulfilling all of the orders! Thank you all for your patience!

A careful study on the compatibility of Dignitatis Humanae with the Church's Tradition is now available in English. The ...
19/05/2025

A careful study on the compatibility of Dignitatis Humanae with the Church's Tradition is now available in English. The principal author is Fr. Bernard Lucien who has deep roots in the Traditional movement. An additional commentary is by Fr. Antoine-Marie Araujo of the Fraternity of St. Vincent Ferrer accompanies the main text.

Translated by John Pepino, Ph.D. | Foreword by Alan Fimister, Ph.D.

Purchase here:

https://aroucapress.com/religious-liberty

https://www.amazon.com/Religious-Liberty-Continuity-Contradiction-Dignitatis/dp/1998492206

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/religious-liberty-bernard-lucien/1147398985

Price: 17.95 USD (pbk), 27.95 USD (hc)
(Slight discount on Amazon until May 23)

134 pages

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Endorsements:

The question of religious liberty is no longer a matter of interest only to political philosophers. By the ambiguity of its teaching, the Second Vatican Council elevated the issue to one that concerns all Catholics inasmuch as it touches on the consistency and reliability of the Church herself in her official teaching. Fr. Lucien's work makes an important contribution to resolving the question in favor of that consistency and reliability. —Dr. John Joy, author of On the Ordinary & Extraordinary Magisterium: From Joseph Kleutgen to the Second Vatican Council

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Many Catholics have been disturbed by an apparent contradiction between the teaching of the Vatican II declaration on religious liberty Dignitatis Humanæ and more than one document of the prior magisterium. As a result several writers have offered competing solutions to this apparent contradiction. This present work consists of three essays with two by Fr. Bernard Lucien setting forth his own carefully argued approach. And until one particular solution gains more widespread acceptance as the most probable answer to this difficulty, it is good that theologians and philosophers continue to study and debate this important question that goes to the heart of the Church's ability to know and define truth. —Thomas Storck, author of Foundations of a Catholic Political Order

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Fr. Bernard Lucien is considered one of the best French traditionalist theologians. His explanation of religious liberty has three merits in my eyes: it is simple and clear; it is based on the literal meaning of the text of Dignitatis Humanæ, and it displays a truly traditional spirit. Let us hope that, thanks to this publication, it will receive greater recognition. —Fr. Louis-Marie de Blignières, founder, Fraternity of St. Vincent Ferrer (Chémeré-le-Roi, France)

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This book makes an original and valuable contribution to the debate on religious liberty. It deserves to be read by all who wish to understand Dignitatis Humanæ and the duty of human societies “toward the true religion and toward the one Church of Christ.” —Fr. Thomas Crean, O.P., co-author with Dr. Alan Fimister of Integralism: A Manual of Political Philosophy

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Father Lucien began studying the conciliar declaration Dignitatis Humanæ in order to demonstrate its incompatibility with traditional teaching. This search for truth, however, led him to reverse his previous position and to find a way out in full agreement with classical moral theology. Analyzing the differing concepts of “conscience” occurring in Western thought since Aquinas, he concluded that the “liberty of conscience and cult” condemned by the nineteenth-century popes was something much more radical and sweeping than the right to religious freedom affirmed by Vatican II. While some of us who have reached the same conclusion have arrived at it by a rather different path from Fr. Lucien, giving more attention to the “due limits” to religious freedom affirmed by DH, his work is a serious contribution to this quaestio disputata that deserves the attention of every theologian. —Fr. Brian W. Harrison, OS, STD, author of Religious Liberty and Contraception

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