About the Roman Catholic Tridentine Mass or Old Mass, also called the Latin Mass. It was largely replaced in the 1960s, but Pope Benedict XVI has permitted it to be used more widely. The Tridentine ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dozens of people gather every Sunday morning in the Gothic sanctuary of St. Alphonsus Roman Catholic Church to pray for the future of a tradition that’s deeply rooted in the past. Before the Latin ...

LONDON (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI would like every Catholic parish in the world to celebrate a regular Tridentine-rite Mass, a Vatican cardinal has said. Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos also told a ...

At that, many congregants looked down at their Latin-English missal and silently read the translation — “Behold the Lamb of God, behold Him who taketh away the sins of the world.” Last Friday, more ...

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 ...

For some weeks, a rumor has been circulating in Rome that this coming November Pope Benedict XVI will, for the first time during his pontificate, publicly celebrate a Pontifical Mass in the Old Rite.

(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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...