Catholic Standard

Latin Mass supporters welcome ‘signs of policy change’

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

Some Catholics favor the Latin Mass. Why the Pope is trying to limit it.

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," ...
Daily Hampshire Gazette

Old rite, new generation: The Latin Mass finds new life in region

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 ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

I’m a Catholic who prefers Latin Mass. For my family, it’s about handing on tradition.

Heintschel is headmaster of a classical academy and lives in Escondido. He attends the Latin Mass at St. Anne Catholic Church in Logan Heights. Shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic, my wife and I ...
Religion News Service

Traditional Latin Mass at National Eucharistic Congress draws enthusiastic crowd

INDIANAPOLIS (RNS) — A mile from the main events of the National Eucharistic Congress on Thursday (July 18) afternoon, Catholic after Catholic knelt on the hot surface of an overflow parking lot of ...
America Magazine

As a deaf Catholic, the Latin Mass gives me equal access to the liturgy

Father Stephen Saffron, parish administrator, elevates the Eucharist during a traditional Tridentine Mass on July 18, 2021, at St. Josaphat Church in the Queens borough of New York City (CNS ...
Rapid City Journal

A turn toward tradition, as some Catholic churches resume 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 ...
National Catholic Reporter

The traditional Latin Mass is not the problem with traditionalist communities

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) ...
Chicago Tribune

Vintage Chicago Tribune: For some Catholics, Latin Mass still an emotional magnet

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 ...
Reading Eagle

Latin Mass is offered at St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church in Reading once a month

One Sunday afternoon each month, Kelly O’Neill and her husband, Mark, pack up their six children and drive from their home in Lancaster to South 12th Street in Reading. Their destination is St. Mary’s ...
Observer-Reporter

Despite papal restrictions, Latin Mass retains adherents

The Rev. Adam Potter leads the Latin Mass at Immaculate Conception Church in Washington in September. The Rev. Adam Potter delivers a homily at the Latin Mass service at Immaculate Conception Church ...
America Magazine

Making sense of Pope Francis’ new restrictions on the Latin Mass

For many Catholics, the Holy Father’s motu proprio “Traditionis Custodes,” restricting the celebration of the Latin Mass, was a difficult document to read, as well as a surprise, even a shock. While I ...