Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol. 67 (1936), pp. 126-147 (22 pages) In the following paper, the Descensus theme or legend of the descent of Jesus into hell ...

November begins with the Feast of All Saints. That month will mark the beginning of a new UCA News series, Saints of the New Millenium, that will profile some of Asia’s saints, “ordinary” people who ...

St Isidore's College in Rome, belonging to the Irish Franciscan Province, preserves a manuscript from the end of the fifteenth century, MS I/88, which in addition to various Latin theological and ...

WHETHER hymns have a place in literature has been frequently questioned, perhaps generally doubted. Dr. Johnson’s objection to devotional lyrics, if rather confident than well considered, availed to ...

The U.S. bishops voted to approve close to 300 new hymn texts for the Liturgy of the Hours. The Nov. 12 vote was 205-5 with two abstentions. The proposal needed two-thirds of the Latin-rite bishops to ...

“The Roman Church has special obligations towards Latin, the splendid language of ancient Rome, and she must manifest them whenever the occasion presents itself” (Dominicae Cenae, 10). Teaching Latin ...

The Latin rite bishops of the US voted overwhelmingly Tuesday morning to approve the International Commission on English in the Liturgy gray book translation of the hymns of the Liturgy of the Hours.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis is celebrating an important Latin American feast day with a Mass featuring Argentine folk hymns. The Argentine pope has praised the "Misa Criolla," one of the first Masses ...

Peter Ferdinando recalls a time when people in Sri Lanka viewed the use of traditional Latin rites at Mass or during other church services as “not Catholic or even anti-Catholic." This attitude has ...