Pope Francis celebrates Mass on the feast of Corpus Christi June 18 outside Rome's Basilica of St. John Lateran. (CNS/Tony Gentile, Reuters) Earlier this month I spent a weekend with a group of ...

Archbishop Chaput delivered the following remarks during the annual Hillenbrand Lecture, sponsored by The Liturgical Institute at the University of Saint Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary. I’m very ...

Liturgical music seems to go in a different direction every decade or so. After the Second Vatican Council, the acoustic guitar came into favor. A generation later, the flowery “Kumbaya” aesthetic of ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has published a meditation on liturgical formation in which he urges an end to polemics in the liturgy, a rediscovery of its beauty, and reasserts his emphasis on unity ...

ROME — Pope Francis has approved further clarifications regarding restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass in an effort to ensure that liturgical reform is "irreversible" and that liturgical ...

During the liturgical movement era in the United States (c. 1926-1955), advocates of liturgical renewal relied upon both the Mystical Body of Christ theology and the methods of Catholic Action to ...

Auxiliary Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Astana, Kazakhstan, is seen at Thomas More College in Merrimack, N.H., Oct. 7, 2021. The bishop visited the campus and celebrated Mass for the feast of Our ...

An Italian expert liturgist has written an open letter to Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago, criticizing the cardinal’s recent assertions, published by the Vatican’s news websi ...

On Thursday Pope Francis told a group of Italian liturgists that while the process of implementing the liturgical reform following Vatican II has been a long and at times bumpy task, the reform is ...

Pope Francis' move to limit the use of the Latin Mass is an effort to bring about greater acceptance of the Second Vatican Council, according to the head of the Vatican's liturgy office. Both in a ...

Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago speaks during a luncheon at St. Genevieve School in Chicago Jan. 30, 2020. (Credit: Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic via CNS.) Listen NEW YORK – Pope Francis’s ...

A five-decade-long liturgical dispute refuses to die in India’s Eastern-rite Syro-Malabar Church as three of its 35 dioceses have refused to implement a new uniform liturgical celebration The bishops’ ...