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 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).

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

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

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.

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 ...

The Charlotte bishop, appointed by Francis in 2024, stated his opposition to Latin prayers, Gregorian chant, many traditional vestments and "ad orientem" Masses in which priests do not face the ...

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.

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 ...