A Boston auxiliary bishop says celebrating the traditional Latin Mass was an overwhelming experience. “In offering the ...

Leaked documents claim to present results of a worldwide consultation of bishops on restricting pre-Vatican II Latin Mass ...

Much of the generational, cultural and aesthetic sensibilities implicated in the differences between the Latin-rite Mass and ordinary form echo the concerns expressed by the Decadent writers ...

The Latin Mass that hundreds of thousands of Northeast Ohio Catholics grew up with lives. Barely. St. Rose of Lima on Cleveland's West Side recently discontinued the older rite, leaving Immaculate ...

The Rev. Francis McCloskey, who recently celebrated a Latin Mass at the chapel, said the Latin rite is unique because it’s steeped in tradition. “It’s quieter, a more reverent experience ...

Instead of seeing the Latin Mass as a source of vitality in the Church, Francis denounces it as a rallying point of dissent. The celebration of the old rite, he argued in a letter to bishops that ...

About 300 Roman Catholics go there every Sunday to celebrate the traditional Latin Mass, a rite rich in symbolism that has been on the margins of Catholic life for more than four decades.

A new rite published by the Vatican on Thursday will allow priests to celebrate a Mass to exhort Catholics to exercise care for the Earth, in the latest push by the 1.4 billion-member global Church to ...

Pope Francis doubled down Saturday, Dec. 18 on his efforts to quash the old Latin Mass, forbidding the celebration of some sacraments according to the ancient rite in his latest salvo against ...

In a decree published Friday, Cardinal Wilton Gregory mandated that beginning Sept. 21, Sunday Mass can be said using the old rite only at three non-parish churches.Priests who want to celebrate ...

For nearly 1,500 years, a large majority of Catholics in the Western Church attended Mass in Latin. But after the Second Vatican Council (1962–65), the rite changed in ways that went well beyond ...

Traditional Latin Mass, also called the extraordinary form of the Roman rite, or the Tridentine Mass, has been celebrated in the Archdiocese of Miami for the past 40 years, beginning under former ...