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The debate in the Catholic Church over the celebration of the old Latin Mass is heating up just as Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate ...
“It is a nostalgic disease ,” he said in 2023 when discussing the traditional Mass.
June 29th is the great Feast of Saints Peter and Paul—two towering pillars of the early Church, martyrs for Christ, and ...
The Vatican has granted a parish in Texas an exemption from restrictions to the Traditional Latin Mass imposed by Pope ...
From the January/February 2023 issue: The reinvention of the Catholic Church. Some Latin Mass–goers have responded to the restrictions by turning to liturgies offered by breakaway groups.
Martin's critics have noted that 2007 guidelines from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops state that "care should be taken to foster the role of Latin in the liturgy, particularly in liturgical ...
Pope Leo XIV has renewed his call for unity within the Catholic Church. He spoke to priests during a special Holy Year week ...
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.
Terry Mattingly writes: There's more to the Catholic liturgy wars than the Latin Mass. Throwback Thursday: See the homes, businesses and cars on Kingston Pike through the years.
On the first Sunday of his papacy, Pope Leo XIV stood on the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica and did something that shocked some Catholics -- he chanted the Marian prayer Regina Caeli in Latin.
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.