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

Family prayers, mass in Latin... my childhood was devout. What I regarded as normal as a kid growing up in the 1960s I have come to realise was unusual.

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

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 ...

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, ...

On January 15, 2022, the Catholic archbishop of San Francisco, Salvatore Cordileone, celebrated Mass at St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral, at Mott and Prince Streets, in Manhattan. The cathedral ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is a new translation of the ancient Latin prayers of the Mass. This new translation continues the liturgical renewal envisioned by the Second Vatican Council (1963-65).

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.

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.