DEFENDING TRADITIONAL CATHOLICISM

UNA VOCE

The International Una Voce Federation has played an important

role in supporting the use of the 1962 edition of the Roman

Missal in obedience to the directives of the Holy See.

We stress that Una Voce does not support or countenance any

schismatic or heretical movements. Our mission is to support

only the celebration of the Tridentine/Gregorian Rite Mass within

the Church, in union with the Holy See and the bishops united

with the Supreme Pontiff of the Church as permitted through the

1988 indult, Ecclesia Dei adflicta.

Una Voce hopes to approach any organization or group that is not

in union with the Holy See with the same charity and sympathy

that the Holy Father shows to various non-Catholic groups in the

hopes of winning them to the one Body of the Church. This

approach is not to be understood as an encouragement for

anyone to rupture union with the Holy See.

Our mission is to help

support reconciliation within the Church and we carry out that

service in union with her lawful pastors and under their guidance.

The mission of Una Voce is, and has been since its founding in

1964, the promotion and support of the traditional Latin Mass

within the Church, in union with Rome.

Our mission is not

directly concerned with other political or social teachings such as

the correct understanding of Church/State relations, theological

explorations into the question of baptism or salvation outside the

Church, and the canonical status of separated Christian groups.

The mission of Una Voce is limited to a promotion of the

celebration of the Gregorian/Gelasian Latin Mass.

We accept that the 1969 Novus Ordo of Pope Paul VI is a valid

rite of Mass. We accept that the Second Vatican Council was a

valid Ecumenical Council of the Church and we hold that its

teachings are to be given the appropriate respect in relation to

authority of its decrees.

In those cases where criticism of reformable policies or pastoral

decisions of the Church is warranted, we offer opinions not as a

means of judging the Church or her leaders, but only as permitted

to the faithful in accordance with Canon 212 paragraph 3 of the

Code of Canon Law.