VATICAN CITY -- It was one of the most radical reforms to emerge from the Second Vatican Council. The Mass, root of Roman Catholic worship, would be celebrated in the local language and not in Latin.

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday removed restrictions on celebrating the old Latin Mass, reviving a rite that was all but swept away by the liberalizing reforms of the Second Vatican ...

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 ...

Several years ago, Catholic traditionalists sharply criticized Pope Francis for reversing a decree that his Bavarian predecessor, Benedict XVI, issued in 2007 to permit unrestricted use of the ...

Early in the Mass, the priest -- chanting in Latin -- leads the congregation in a prayer of repentance. The faithful respond: "Confiteor Deo omnipotenti et vobis, fratres, quia peccavi nimis ...

In doing so, he will be overriding objections from some cardinals, bishops and Jews -- whose complaints range from the text of the old Mass to the symbolic sweeping aside of the council's work from ...

Early in the Mass, the priest — chanting in Latin — leads the congregation into a prayer of repentance. The faithful respond: "Confíteor Deo omnipotenti et vobis, fratres, quia peccavi nimis ...

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.