{"product_id":"the-latin-mass-and-the-intellectuals-petitions-to-save-the-ancient-mass-from-1966-to-2007","title":"The Latin Mass and the Intellectuals: Petitions to Save the Ancient Mass from 1966 to 2007","description":"\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWhat do Evelyn Waugh, Lanzo Del Vasto, F.R. Leavis, Nancy Mitford, Agatha Christie, Yehudi Menuhin, René Girard, and Franco Zeffirelli have in common? Along with scores of others—artists, musicians, scholars, writers, actors, politicians and business people—they signed petitions to save the Catholic Church’s ancient Latin liturgy, between 1966 and 2007.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis is the story of how so many men and women of culture, Catholic or not, came to the defence of the world’s greatest monument to the human spirit—the immemorial Latin Mass—and of the music, art, and spiritual tradition which it comprises and inspires.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Educated people are in the vanguard where recognition of the value of tradition in concerned, and are the first to raise the alarm when it is threatened. …They wish to call to the attention of the Holy See, the appalling responsibility it would incur in the history of the human spirit were it to refuse to allow the Traditional Mass to survive.” (1971 petition)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eDrawing on rarely seen historical documents and new research, editor Joseph Shaw weaves together a compelling account of the petitions’ genesis, and the formation of the movement to preserve the Traditional Mass.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Publish Date - 10\/27\/2023 - Hardcover","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54527373345078,"sku":null,"price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/8714\/8342\/files\/IMG-6184.jpg?v=1788888686","url":"https:\/\/thenandnowbookshop.com\/products\/the-latin-mass-and-the-intellectuals-petitions-to-save-the-ancient-mass-from-1966-to-2007","provider":"Then \u0026 Now Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}