The Society of St. Catherine of Siena is committed to the renewal of the intellectual apostolate in the Roman Catholic Church. The Society has an association with the English Province of the Order of Preachers. It is registered charity number 1088118.

The Society welcomes the founding of St. Bede’s Hall in Oxford as a new Catholic college under the direction of the Most Rev’d. Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, and is glad to lend its scholarship and experience to this new venture, in keeping with the charism of the Society.

In July 2009, an article about the Society was published in Catholic Life magazine. It can be downloaded here.

Forthcoming Events

Society of St. Catherine of Siena Annual Requiem
19 November 2009, Hospital of Ss. John & Elizabeth, St. John’s Wood, London
The Society’s Annual Requiem will be celebrated at 6.30pm by kind permission of Fra' Frederik Crichton Stuart, Grand Prior, in the Conventual Chapel of the Knights of Malta at the Hospital of Ss. John and Elizabeth in St. John's Wood. It will be celebrated in the traditional rite by Very Rev'd. Ignatius Harrison, and Fr. John Osman will preach.

Launch of the Society's New Journal, Usus Antiquior
6 January 2010
Further details will be forthcoming.

Society of St. Catherine of Siena Annual Mass
29 April 2010, Hospital of Ss. John & Elizabeth, St. John’s Wood, London
The Society’s Annual Mass will be celebrated at 6.30pm by kind permission of Fra' Frederik Crichton Stuart, Grand Prior, in the Conventual Chapel of the Knights of Malta at the Hospital of Ss. John and Elizabeth in St. John's Wood. It will be celebrated as a Solemn Pontifical Mass in the traditional rite by Mgr. Malcolm McMahon OP, Bishop of Nottingham.

Society of St. Catherine of Siena Annual Pilgrimage
8 May 2010, to the Parish Church of St. Birinus, Dorchester on Thames, Oxford
The Society's annual pilgrimage, in association with the Oxford University Newman Society, will be to the parish church of St. Birinus, at the kind invitation of Father John Osman. If you would like to accompany the Society on this pilgrimage, please email us.

New Initiatives

St. Damasus Group. A new working group has been formed to bring forward proposals by Prof. László Dobszay for a ‘Graduale Parvum’ in both Latin and English and for all forms of the Mass for use in parish churches. Click here for more information.

Usus Antiquior. The Society is sponsoring the establishment of a new academic journal of liturgical studies dedicated to the study and promotion of the Roman rite. Click here for more information.

St. Nicholas Initiative. A programme to support parishes and clergy wishing to implement elements of Pope Benedict XVI's motu proprio Summorum Pontificum. Click here for more information.

The Society is most grateful for any gifts received in support of this work. Names of all our Benefactors are kept on a list and Holy Mass is offered for them monthly.