which replaced the centuries-old Latin Mass in 1969. Taken together, the changes to the Mass, the Church calendar, and other features of Catholic liturgy constitute the most extensive alteration ...

The Catholic Bishop of Derry has warned parishioners that someone posing as an ordained priest who is part of a breakaway ...

Latin is the Church’s language, Roman and catholic as the Church is Roman and Catholic. Something is to be gained from the story of the woman who approached a priest after Mass with the ...

Members of the Latin Mass societies, Carey said, requested the visit “to secure their access to the traditional rites and sacraments of the Catholic Church (and) is in response to the rigid ...

The Mass is being translated anew to provide a more exalted, transcendent, “spiritual” language for our worship, and to make the English translation more consistent with the Latin original.

From the pulpit, there was greater emphasis on sin and confession, and at Mass, more Latin, fewer altar girls and reintroducing kneeling during communion. Sullivan reported what he saw as a shift to ...

The COVID-19 pandemic that killed millions worldwide is also blamed for a liturgical dispute that has shaken India's Syro-Malabar Church with assaults, street protests and verbal abuses.