“We exhort you all to lift up high the torch of Latin which is even today a bond of unity among peoples of all nations.” —Pope St. John Paul II Ancient Christian funerary plaque in Santa Maria degli ...

Traditionalist Catholics have urged Pope Leo XIV to ease his predecessor's restrictions on the Latin Mass, insisting the move was based on misunderstandings and is hampering a Western church revival. ...

The traditional Latin mass is a form of worship that can be mystical and beautiful, but it's also at the centre of a division within the Catholic Church — between those who hanker for powerful priests ...

LATIN has been the official language of the Catholic Church. Papal documents are promulgated in Latin. Church documents, most especially laws, are binding in Latin. The Vatican’s official gazette is ...

Explain to me our Catholic understanding of tradition. One book I read on the subject said tradition cannot change, yet it seems to me it has. The vernacular Mass is a prime example. Before Vatican II ...