Among traditionalist Catholics in England, the “Agatha Christie” letter is a touchstone of memory, revered as one might an Elizabethan-era maniple preserved in a recusant house. So it is unsurprising ...

A traditional Latin Mass, attended by around 200 priests, was celebrated with papal permission on Oct. 25 in St. Peter’s ...

Catholics and even non-Catholics around the world have recently been imploring Pope Francis to refrain from implementing a rumored ban on the Tridentine Mass, also known as the Traditional Latin Mass ...

Four decades ago, Gary Velder and some like-minded Roman Catholics would gather in motel rooms to experience Mass their preferred way: in Latin. Until the 1960s, all Roman Catholic Masses were in the ...

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 ...

On the first Sunday of his papacy, Pope Leo XIV stood on the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica and chanted the Marian prayer "Regina Caeli" in Latin. While many consider Latin chant controversial ...

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 ...

The retired Hong Kong cardinal led a Eucharistic procession after celebrating a Latin Mass on June 22. Cardinal Joseph Zen leads a Eucharistic procession in Hong Kong after celebrating the Latin Mass ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican told Catholic bishops around the world on Friday they had to obey a papal order allowing priests to say the old-style Latin mass for traditionalist Catholics, ...

Jessica Harvey used to worship in a church with stained glass and a soaring ceiling. The Catholic parish gave Harvey and her family a sense of community as they settled into their new hometown in ...