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 ...

It was in Latin. This Traditional or Tridentine Mass – using texts dating back as far as the fourth century, and accompanied ...

For centuries, Catholics around the world attended the celebration of what is often called the Tridentine or Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) and was more recently called the Extraordinary Form of the ...

Pope Leo XIV has authorised a traditional mass to take place this weekend at the Vatican, lifting restrictions that angered ...

VATICAN CITY, July 3 (Reuters) - A new rite published by the Vatican on Thursday will allow priests to celebrate a Mass to exhort Catholics to exercise care for the Earth, in the latest push by the ...