VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A new Vatican instruction calls on local bishops and pastors to respond generously to Catholics who seek celebration of the Mass according to the 1962 Roman Missal, commonly known ...

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

Worshippers trek to St. Agnes Church to experience Sunday morning Mass as it was celebrated for centuries — until about 40 years ago. The Catholic church on East 43rd Street is one of five in New York ...

In response to student requests for the Tridentine Mass, a traditional Catholic Mass said in Latin, the Office of Campus Ministry has agreed to regularize its twice-weekly observance in Copley Crypt.

When word began to spread last year that Pope Benedict XVI might release a document that would allow some changes in the ways Catholic worship on Sunday mornings, the reaction in some quarters ...

The Latin Mass may be coming back to Georgetown, if one group of students has its way. Two students submitted last month a formal request to the Office of Campus Ministry for the addition of a ...

MUNSTER | Catholics who fondly recall the Latin Tridentine Mass can dust off their St. Joseph Daily Missals and use them again at the Carmelite Monastery in Munster. This Mass, always said in Latin, ...

MARTIN: The majority of Catholics in the U.S. attend English language Masses, but McBrien says the Tridentine rite is gaining popularity among American Catholics in their 20s and 30s, who he says ...

Summorum Pontificum, the motu proprio granting greater freedom to celebrate the old Latin or Tridentine Mass, puts me in mind of the mercy of God, and how he comes to the aid of his suffering people.

ROCK ISLAND -- Tridentine Masses will keep smiles on the faces of some Catholic traditionalists in the Quad-Cities. The Tridentine Mass is said in Latin, but it's becoming an endangered species in the ...

(Catholics in the archdiocese of Washington, D.C., for example, can attend a Tridentine Mass in one of three local parishes each Sunday.) For those of us who grew up with Masses in English, ...

A priest at a Channelview Catholic church has taken an extended vacation from the pulpit after surprising parishioners with a weekend of Masses in Latin. The Rev. Stephen P. Zigrang, pastor of St.