MARTIN: The majority of Catholics in the U.S. attend English language Masses, but McBrien says the Tridentine rite is gaining popularity among American Catholics in their 20s and 30s, who he says ...

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.

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 ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI has approved a document that relaxes restrictions on celebrating the Latin Mass used by the Roman Catholic Church for centuries until the modernizing reforms of the ...

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.

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 ...

Despite the 2007 publication of Summorum Pontificum by Pope Benedict XVI, clarifying the use of the Tridentine Latin Mass, confusion abounds. Few priests, it seems, understand the document, perhaps ...

No matter how you look at it, the story about a Tridentine Catholic Mass being held in a conference room in the U.S. Capitol is more than a little bizarre. Even assuming the best of intentions, the ...

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.