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

On the first Sunday of his papacy, Pope Leo XIV stood on the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica and did something that shocked some Catholics -- he chanted the Marian prayer Regina Caeli in Latin.

Controversy in a North Carolina diocese has broadened beyond traditional Latin Mass restrictions after it was revealed that the local bishop had also planned to ban the use of Latin, altar rails, and ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Traditionalist Catholics who felt abandoned after Pope Francis restricted the old Latin Mass rejoiced Saturday as they prepared to celebrate the traditional liturgy in St. Peter's ...

Francis explained that he decided to restrict the Latin Mass because he was concerned its use was leading to division in the Church. Francis said he felt the more ancient mass was "being used in an ...

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 ...

When I was a graduate student and then a young professor living in the Carolinas for nine good years, I grew to appreciate the people and their often courtly ways, most winsome when these ways ...

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 ...

Pope Leo XIV and U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke pose for a photo in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Aug. 22, 2025. While the Vatican press office announced that the two met, it ...

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 ...

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 ...