For everyone who said, “What’s the big deal?” when the earlier Vatican document about the Tridentine Mass was promulgated, comes a report from Catholic News Service. Remember that even if there is ...

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 ...

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 ...

QUEBEC CITY -- Though a Vatican official said Pope Benedict XVI wants all parishes to have a Tridentine Mass, Quebec Cardinal Marc Ouellet expressed satisfaction with one parish in his archdiocese ...

During his recent trip to Hungary, Pope Francis addressed one of the most contentious decisions of his pontificate: the restrictions he has made on the Tridentine Mass. For those unfamiliar, the ...

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, ...

Kim Keller wanted her nine children to experience as many different Masses as possible and took them to services in English and in Spanish at churches throughout the Baltimore region. “We thought it ...

(Soundbite of Mass) MARTIN: This is the Tridentine Mass and it was practiced by Catholics for close to 1500 years before the Second Vatican Council decreed that services should be in the vernacular of ...

Local dioceses should give a “generous welcome” to any laity who wish to attend Mass in the “extraordinary form” and to priests who wish to say it. That’s the key message of new Vatican guidelines ...

“The Tridentine Mass: Why I Couldn’t Go Back,” my blog post of March 8, evoked numerous comments—63 to be exact. These surely set me thinking. Thanks to all who pitched in! At this point, I prefer not ...