“The Church observes the birth of John as in some way sacred; and you will not find any other of the great men of old whose ...

Major Archbishop Raphael Thattil and his vicar Mar Joseph Pamplani on Thursday proposed a solution to the ongoing liturgical ...

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.

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The Provincial Superior of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) members in Kenya and Tanzania has proposed conventions to ...

Pope Leo XIV has made waves with some of his fashion choices, returning to much of the traditional pomp of popes past ...

Terry Mattingly writes: There's more to the Catholic liturgy wars than the Latin Mass. In the face of protest, police must embrace their role as guardians for all Americans.

One of Pope Francis’ most controversial moves was to restrict the use of the ancient Latin Mass; he said he did this to promote unity among the Catholic Church.

For nearly 1,500 years, a large majority of Catholics in the Western Church attended Mass in Latin. But after the Second Vatican Council (1962–65), the rite changed in ways that went well beyond ...

A body of Catholic religious men and women has appealed to the Synod of Bishops of the India-based Eastern rite Syro-Malabar Church to settle the decades-old liturgy dispute over the rubrics of Mass..

Rev. Gerald J. Bednar is simply wrong to suggest that reciting the prayer to St. Michael is “out of place at the end of Catholic Mass” (Letters, Oct. 22). He mistakenly says that it “ends ...

The bishops decided to have the priest face the altar during the eucharistic prayer but face the congregation during the Liturgy of the Word and again after Communion. Priests in most Syro-Malabar ...