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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Views vary on other ideas, such as recognizing same-sex marriages. Most see Pope Francis as a change in the church’s ...

In major Latin American countries, Catholic support for ordaining women as priests has risen significantly in the last decade ...