which replaced the centuries-old Latin Mass in 1969. Taken together, the changes to the Mass, the Church calendar, and other features of Catholic liturgy constitute the most extensive alteration ...

Latin is the Church’s language, Roman and catholic as the Church is Roman and Catholic. Something is to be gained from the story of the woman who approached a priest after Mass with the ...

Members of the Latin Mass societies, Carey said, requested the visit “to secure their access to the traditional rites and sacraments of the Catholic Church (and) is in response to the rigid ...

The Vatican announced it will carry out an apostolic visitation to the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, an institution whose ...

These changes were codified in 1970 with St. Paul VI’s Roman Missal, the missal used in most Catholic parishes in vernacular languages. The restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass are a break ...

Generally, the concept of sola scriptura (Latin for achieving God's ... Anyone raised Catholic will remember that Sunday mass revolves around the mystery of the Eucharist, arguably the most ...

Three years after being approved by the U.S. Catholic bishops, updates to the ritual texts for distribution of holy Communion ...

A rampant wildfire on Saturday destroyed The Holy Spirit Catholic Mission in Washoe Valley, Nevada, which held the only Latin Mass in northern Nevada. Several other homes and structures in the ...

The survey also found that Francis’ popularity has dropped throughout Latin America in the last decade, though significant ...

Cebu, the biggest Catholic territory in the Philippines, is one of a few dioceses that still allow the Traditional Latin Mass CEBU CITY, Philippines – On Sunday afternoons, a disembodied voice ...

Francis said he was restricting use of the Latin Mass out of concern ... number of sweeping changes to Catholic ritual and practice — including allowing for Mass to be recited in the vernacular.