A top American cardinal celebrated a traditional Latin Mass on Saturday in St. Peter's Basilica with the explicit permission of Pope Leo XIV, thrilling traditionalist Catholics who had felt abandoned ...

EASTHAMPTON — It’s a fallacy to say that young people are only into new things. Despite push back from the Vatican against traditional Catholics in recent years, young people in particular are leading ...

Pope Francis' restoration of restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass was guaranteed to provoke uproar. Many who prefer the old rite (sometimes called the Tridentine Mass, or the extraordinary form) ...

A theological battle was recently resumed in Chicago, 500 years after it was fought in Europe. Like Martin Luther’s challenge to the 16th century papacy, the opening salvo of the rerun was marked by a ...

The Rev. Adam Potter leads the Latin Mass at Immaculate Conception Church in Washington in September. The Rev. Adam Potter delivers a homily at the Latin Mass service at Immaculate Conception Church ...

For the first time in more than 50 years, a Mass in Latin will be celebrated regularly at a church in Wichita Falls. Beginning Tuesday, June 6, St. Benedict Orthodox Church will have an Extraordinary ...

LONDON — Cardinal Vincent Nichols has declined to give permission for the old Latin rite celebration of the Easter Triduum in Westminster, making it the first time since the 1990s that the Easter ...

Editor’s note: This article is part of The Conversation with America Media, offering diverse perspectives on important and contested issues in the life of the church. Read other views on the ...

Kerry Weber’s “Stop saying the Latin Mass is more reverent” (Short Take, online Nov. 17) received more than 150 comments from our readers. Her story was in part a response to a recent article in The ...

Pope Francis celebrates Mass during the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on June 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File) August 14 was to have been a ...

A top American cardinal has celebrated a traditional Latin Mass in St. Peter's Basilica with the explicit permission of Pope Leo XIV, a significant departure from Pope Francis, who had sharply ...