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 ...

A top American cardinal celebrated a traditional Latin Mass on Saturday in St. Peter's Basilica with the explicit permission ...

Archbishop Cordileone’s Mass planned for San Francisco on Saturday, Nov. 1, is one of five traditional pontifical Latin liturgies scheduled for the next month.

Pope Francis greatly limited the use of the traditional Latin Mass, believing it sowed division. Traditionalist Catholics are hoping Pope Leo charts a different path.

ROME — Thousands of faithful from all over the world took part in a solemn pontifical Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, ...

Pope Leo XIV has authorised a traditional mass to take place this weekend at the Vatican, lifting restrictions that angered conservatives in his latest attempt to heal splits within the Catholic ...

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 ...

Four decades ago, Gary Velder and some like-minded Roman Catholics would gather in motel rooms to experience Mass their preferred way: in Latin. Until the 1960s, all Roman Catholic Masses were in the ...

At a time when the world is plunged into a deep darkness not seen in many decades – and some would say is being held captive and being destroyed by a handful of evil, cynical men – it's flabbergasting ...

Worshippers fill the pews at a traditional Latin Mass at St. Ann Catholic Church in Charlotte, N.C., June 1, 2025. (OSV News photo/Markus Kuncoro, Charlotte Latin Mass Community via Facebook) (OSV ...

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 ...

The Rev. Richard J. Rego was full of his typical fire and vigor last Sunday as he said Latin Mass and gave a homily titled "Jesus Wept." Just one day later Rego was felled by a burst aorta. He died at ...