Press Release on the Ad Petri Sedem Pilgrimage 2026

Press Release from Una Voce International (FIUV)

‘Ad Petri Sedem’ Pilgrimage 2026

Monday, 26th October 2026 — ROME, ITALY

 

Many members and supporters take part in the pilgrimage and we as an organisation are a member of the Caetus Internationalis Summorum Pontificum; we regard the annual pilgrimage as having great significance for the movement for the Traditional Mass. We would like to correct some misunderstandings which have arisen over the organisation of the pilgrimage this year.

The authorities (through the Secretariat of State) declined the Coetus’ request for the celebration of Mass in St Peter’s, in August. At that point it was hoped and assumed that it would nevertheless be possible to have a collective devotion of some kind for the pilgrims, in St Peter’s, as happened in 2023 and 2024 when permission for Mass was refused. The August letter did not rule this out, so the Coetus requested it.

This request was refused in a letter dated 30th September, which was however not received by the organisers until well into October.

In the meantime permission was sought and gained for a Prelatial (Pontifical) Low Mass in St Mary Major.

The Coetus was privileged to be allowed a Mass there on a Saturday, which is not normally allowed for pilgrim groups. A very reasonable time slot was allocated for this, and Mass ended at about 4:15, as would be expected.

The Cardinal Archpriest, the sacristans, and the Basilica security were all very helpful, and we are very grateful to them. The Dominican priests whose role is to hear confessions in the Basilica made themselves available to the pilgrims.

We are also grateful to the Lissom Grove choir and to the 1,500 pilgrims who filled this ancient Basilica.

Joseph Shaw, President

Monika Rheinschmitt, Treasurer

Rome

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Editors Notes:

Una Voce International (Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce, FIUV) groups together more than forty lay-led associations in support of the Traditional Latin Mass around the world.

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Press contacts:

Communications Officer, Daniel Beurthe daniel@lms.org.uk

President, Joseph Shaw president@fiuv.org

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Gregorius Magnus 21 published!

In this issue we challenge Cardinal Roche’s

understanding of the Vetus Ordo;

we report on Cardinal Eijk’s Mass in the Netherlands,

and Cardinal Burke’s Mass in St Peter’s;

we carry features from France, Nigeria, Germany, and England,

plus book reviews, comment, and features from around the world.

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FIUV Statement on planned SSPX Episcopal Consecrations

Joint Press Release of Una Voce International (FIUV)

and the Latin Mass Society (England and Wales).

SSPX announces new Episcopal Consecrations

 

 

Una Voce International and the Latin Mass Society have heard with concern the announcement by the Superior General of the Society of St Pius X (SSPX), Fr Davide Pagliarani, that the SSPX will carry out Episcopal consecrations on 1st July this year.

 

Our ardent wish, shared by many Catholics of good will, is for the canonical regularisation of the SSPX, which would enable its many good works to bear the greatest possible fruit. This announcement is an indication that this outcome is a more distant prospect than it has seemed for many years.

 

We share the SSPX’s goal, that the Church’s ancient liturgy be made available as widely as possible for the good of souls. We do not share the SSPX’s analysis of the crisis of the Church in all its details. In particular we know many Catholics able to attend the Traditional Mass with all the necessary permissions from the Church’s hierarchy, such that it is not necessary for them to seek it in any irregular context.

 

We also know, however, that for others, attending the Traditional Mass has been made very difficult: in some places, this is despite the desire of qualified priests to celebrate it for the faithful, and even the willingness of the local bishop to allow this. This creates an environment in which the SSPX argument of a ‘state of emergency’ gains sympathy.

 

We urge our bishops, and above all His Holiness Pope Leo XIV, to be mindful of these pastoral realities, which are at this moment precipitating a crisis whose consequences no one can foresee. 

 

What Catholics attached to the ‘former Missal’ desire is not some harmful or novel liturgical form. Pope St John Paul II called our desire for this Missal a ‘rightful aspiration’ (Ecclesia Dei, 1988), and later Pope Benedict XVI described it as a source of ‘riches’ (Letter to Bishops, 2007). 

 

The time to act is now.

 

 

Joseph Shaw

President, Una Voce International, and Chairman, Latin Mass Society

 

Monika Rheinschmitt, Vice President and Treasurer, Una Voce International

Andris Amolins, Secretary, Una Voce International

David Forster, Treasurer, Latin Mass Society

Selina Fang, Secretary, Latin Mass Society

 

 

Note:

 

Una Voce International (Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce, FIUV) groups together more than forty lay-led associations in support of the Traditional Latin Mass around the world.

 

The Latin Mass Society, founded in 1965, supports the Traditional Latin Mass in England and Wales, and is the largest member association of the FIUV.

 

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Contact: Joseph Shaw president@fiuv.org

LMS Press Officer: Daniel Beurthe daniel@lms.org.uk 

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Response to Cardinal Roche's text on the liturgy

Cardinal Roche’s Rearguard Action

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During the recent consistory, the meeting of cardinals in Rome, Cardinal Arthur Roche, Prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship, handed out a two-sided piece of paper containing some reflections on the liturgy to those present: this has been make available by Diane Montagna here. The liturgy had been among the four topics originally proposed for discussion at the meeting, but the cardinals decided to focus on just two, leaving the liturgy out. Cardinal Roche’s document was accordingly handed out without being formally discussed.

Versions were available in Italian and in English. The latter was clearly translated from the former, and not flawlessly: the Italian word sintonia, which means ‘harmony’, was rendered ‘syntony’ (para 4). It is surprising that an English Cardinal should have missed this howler, and it suggests that he didn’t write the document personally.

The argument of the text is not difficult to summarise. First, it makes historical argument that the liturgy has often developed: ‘The history of the liturgy … is the history of its continuous “reforming” in a process of organic development.’

This is linked, secondly, to the authority of the Second Vatican Council, at whose request the liturgy was reformed.

Thirdly, it repeats, with illustrations from the time of Pope Pius V, the Second Vatican Council, Pope Benedict, and Pope Francis, the claim that liturgical unity is necessary for the unity of the Church.

As a contribution to the debate sparked by Pope Francis’ Apostolic Letter restricting the Traditional Mass, Traditionis custodes, this represents a doubling-down rather than an attempt to engage with critics.

Gregorius Magnus 20, Winter 2026, now available

The new edition of Gregorius Magnus, the magazine of the FIUV, is now available to view online, on the ISSUU platform (optimised for mobile devices) or as a downloadable pdf.

In this issue we welcome Pope Leo, explore the Romanitas of English Catholicism, join Una Voce France in celebrating the 350th anniversary of the revelations of the Sacred Heart, explore the school in Nigeria run by the apostolate of the Fraternity of St Peter, review Jonathan Haight's The Anxious Generation, and lots more.

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FIUV Ordo 2026 available now!

The Federation's own Ordo, giving the Mass to be said every day of the year according to the Universal Calendar (1962), is now available as a pdf download here.

Hard copies are now available to buy, from the LMS online shop.

The FIUV took up the publication of this Ordo when the PCED, which used to do it, ceased to exist. It is modelled on the old PCED Ordos.

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General Assembly 2025 and a new Council

The Federation's General Assembly takes place every two years and (re)elects the President and Council, following which the Council chooses the Secretary and Treasurer and can co-opt three additional Councilors.

We had a well-attended General Assembly this year, and are delighted to announce the following, to hold office from now until the General Assembly of 2027.

President: Joseph Shaw (Latin Mass Society, England and Wales)

President d’Honneur: Jacques Dhaussy (Una Voce France)

Patrick Banken (Una Voce France)

Jack Oostveen (Ecclesia Dei Delft, The Netherlands)

Vice President and Treasurer: Monika Rheinschmitt (Pro Missa Tridentina, Germany)

Secretary: Andris Amolins (Una Voce Latvia)

Councillors:

Jaime Alcalde (Magnificat, UV Chile)

David Reid (Una Voce Canada)

Fabio Marino (Una Voce Italy)

Uchenna Okezie (Una Voce Nigeria)

Donal Hanley (Una Voce Taiwan)

Rubén Peretó Rivas (Una Voce Argentina)

The following were invited to join Council meetings as non-voting consultants:

Consultants:

Pepijn Deutekom (Una Voce Netherlands)

Felipe Suarez Alanis (UV Mexico)

Catherine Jeulin (Una Voce France)

Membership of past Councils is recorded here.

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