It’s the kind of Catholic Mass your grandparents might remember: The liturgy is spoken in Latin, the choir sings Gregorian chants and women wear chapel veils, or “mantillas.” But, this Traditional ...

I recently spoke with Cameron O’Hearn, a Catholic filmmaker who has produced and directed the three-part documentary, Mass of the Ages. This endeavor was in place long before Pope Francis’s motu ...

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) ...

Every so often the secular press rediscovers the Tridentine Mass, often called the Latin Mass, and offers an analysis of its place in the church. The latest reporting is a piece in The New York Times ...

ROME — Inside the frescoed nave of a church near the Colosseum, women in black veils and clean-cut young men listened in reverent silence to a largely forbidden rite: a Roman Catholic Mass in Latin. A ...

Cardinal Wilton Gregory, the archbishop of Washington, D.C., explained his reasoning for limiting the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass in his archdiocese, saying that allowing the old form of ...

The priest celebrating a Sunday Mass at St. Matthew Roman Catholic Church spoke not in a familiar, modern language, but in ancient Latin, as once had happened for centuries. "Dominus vobiscum," ...

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 ...

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