A traditional Latin Mass, attended by around 200 priests, was celebrated with papal permission on Oct. 25 in St. Peter’s ...

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 ...

ROCK ISLAND -- Tridentine Masses will keep smiles on the faces of some Catholic traditionalists in the Quad-Cities. The Tridentine Mass is said in Latin, but it's becoming an endangered species in the ...

“Another fine mess you’ve gotten us into” is the famous catch phrase from the old black-and-white film comedies of Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel. The phrase was usually employed when the ill-fated pair ...

For the first time in more than 30 years, Catholics in Terre Haute will be able to celebrate a traditional Latin Mass in a local parish church. A Tridentine Latin Mass will be celebrated at 3 p.m. Jan ...

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 ...

The rite is entirely in Latin. The priest faces the altar and has his back to the congregation. There is less lay participation. Just bread is used in Communion, instead of bread and wine. Source: The ...

Pope Benedict XVI is considering a proposal that would allow more Roman Catholic churches to return to the traditional Latin mass, called the Tridentine Mass. Rachel Martin visits one of the few U.S.

After months of intense speculation, Pope Benedict XVI has eased restrictions on the Catholic Church’s traditional Latin Mass — a move that could raise controversy both within the Church, and in its ...

Papal documents create opportunities. They do not in themselves make things happen. On July 7, the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, widened the permission to celebrate the Mass according to the ...

PARIS (Reuters) - It isn't official. It may not even happen. But reports that Pope Benedict could soon revive the old Latin mass are stoking heated debates among European Catholics with some fearing ...