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 ...

A new rite published by the Vatican on Thursday will allow priests to celebrate a Mass to exhort Catholics to exercise care ...

The Latin rite differs from the Roman Catholic Mass more commonly used today. Besides the use of Latin, Communion is given on a tongue, with recipients kneeling at a Communion rail.

Pope Leo XIV stood on the central Loggia of St. Peter's Basilica and did something that shocked some Catholics.

Archbishop Samir Nassar closed his June 24-30 visit from Damascus, Syria, to the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis by celebrating the solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul with Archbishop Bernard ...

FRENCHTOWN — When St. John the Baptist Catholic Church started tending its Frenchtown flock in 1884, all the records were kept in French or Latin.

1313 In the Latin Rite, the ordinary minister of Confirmation is the bishop. 132 If the need arises, the bishop may grant the faculty of administering Confirmation to priests, 133 although it is ...

The name Advent (From the Latin word Adventus, which signifies a coming) is applied, in the Latin Church, to that period of the year, during which the Church requires the faithful to prepare for ...

The Vatican says leaked documents that seemingly undermined Pope Francis’ stated reason for restricting the old Latin Mass ...

Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni declined to explicitly confirm the authenticity of the documents, which were posted online ...

The debate in the Catholic Church over the celebration of the old Latin Mass is heating up just as Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate ...