VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Catholic priests will now be able to celebrate Mass “for the care of creation” after the Vatican ...

VATICAN CITY -- In making two controversial decisions this month -- opening the door to wider celebration of the Latin Mass and asserting the Roman Catholic Church as the one true "church of ...

The Vatican has approved and is ready to release a new English translation of the Mass and its associated prayers and texts. Pope Benedict XVI spoke Wednesday at the Vatican to Vox Clara, a ...

Leaked documents claim to present results of a worldwide consultation of bishops on restricting pre-Vatican II Latin Mass ...

McManus, a liturgist, served as a peritus, or expert, during Vatican II. t tThe Roman Missal has not yet been given final approval for use in the United States.

The Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has taken a decisive step to clarify the norms for “the correct application” of the motu proprio ...

That concluded a translation process that began in 2000, when Pope John Paul II introduced in Latin a third edition of the Roman Missal since the Second Vatican Council.

Pope Francis wants all Catholics to recognize that Vatican II and its reforms are not only authentic actions of the Holy Spirit but also are in continuity with the tradition of the church.

Parishioners use Mass guides during a Sunday morning service at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Alexandria, Virginia, Nov. 27, 2011. The new English translation of the Roman Missal was used for ...

The explanatory document, which bans confirmations and ordinations according to pre-Vatican II Roman Missals, was published Dec. 18 with Pope Francis’ approval.

Since the allowance of the vernacular in the Mass following Vatican II, the idea of people having their own Roman Missal has fallen into relative obscurity. The erroneous thinking that the Roman ...