We should pray for the conversion of many people, in and outside of the Church, who still do not recognize the urgency of ...

“It is a nostalgic disease ,” he said in 2023 when discussing the traditional Mass.

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

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 ...

But the traditional Latin Mass, with all its formality and mystery, never fully disappeared. Though it represents a fraction of Masses performed at the 17,000 Catholic parishes in the United ...

In the Gloria, English receive our prayer is an accurate but pallid rendering of the Latin suscipe deprecationem nostram, with its dramatic action, as God literally takes up from below our humble ...

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

Andres Solorzano, left, kneels in prayer during a Traditional Latin Mass Sunday morning service at Our Lady of Belen Chapel on July 30, 2023.

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 ...

Andres Solorzano, left, kneels in prayer during a Traditional Latin Mass Sunday morning service at Our Lady of Belen Chapel on July 30, 2023. Juana Maria Correa, ...

INDIANAPOLIS (RNS) — Despite restrictions, hundreds of Catholics came out to the first of two traditional Latin Masses offered at the National Eucharistic Congress, which will also feature four ...

Latin Mass, an ancient form of Catholic worship, is on the rise in the U.S., drawing a mix of traditionalists, young families, new converts and critics of Pope Francis.