Understand the lasting impact of Lacrimosa by Mozart, known for its moving sound and connection to the composer’s final days.

Without basis, without charity, Pope Francis and his advisors stripped that venerable gem away from Catholics almost entirely.

Pope Leo XIV is starting a six-week vacation this weekend at the papal summer retreat south of Rome. It's his first break ...

The new Mass, Pro Custodia Creationis (For the Care of Creation), was initially ordered by Pope Francis, who made the ...

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

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

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.

Traditionalist Catholics have urged Pope Leo XIV to ease his predecessor's restrictions on the Latin Mass, insisting the move was based on misunderstandings and is hampering a Western Church revival.

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For He whom you did merit to bear, alleluia." While many consider Latin chant controversial, the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music immediately launched a project called "Let's Sing with the Pope." ...

While use of the Latin Mass remains a flash point, a controversy in the rapidly growing Diocese of Charlotte, N.C., has raised questions about the status of other liturgical traditions and symbols.