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 ...

Beauty’s power is often disregarded. When we think of power, our minds often turn to weapons of mass destruction, or tornados, tsunamis and other natural disasters; we may think of money and political ...

On Wednesday the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued two decrees giving new Eucharistic prefaces and provision for the optional celebration of more recently named saints in the ...

The Roman Rite Church showed extraordinary missionary dynamism. This explains why a greater part of the world has been evangelized by heralds of the Latin Rite Many European languages which we regard ...

ROME — Canon lawyers and experts in the traditional liturgy have warned that a pastoral instruction issued by the Diocese of Rome that bans traditional communities and priests from celebrating all the ...

Pope Francis delivers his blessing as he leads his general audience in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Nov. 18, 2020. (Credit: CNS photo/Vatican Media.) Listen ROME — The approval ...

Shown is a detail of text in Latin from a page of the 1962 Roman Missal. This 1996 reproduction of the missal is by Roman Catholic Books. (CNS file photo/Nancy Wiechec) Pope Francis has revoked the ...

Pope Francis celebrates Mass during the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on June 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File) August 14 was to have been a ...

Pope Leo XIV recites the Angelus after Mass for the canonization of seven new saints in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Oct. 19, 2025. Credit: CNS photo/Lola Gomez I don’t envy Pope Leo XIV as he ...