“It is a nostalgic disease ,” he said in 2023 when discussing the traditional Mass.

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 ...

Latin Mass adherents tend to be socially conservative and tradition-minded. Some, like the Agustin family, are attracted to the Mass’s beauty, symbolism and what they describe as a more reverent ...

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.

Of the 17,000 Catholic parishes in the United States, 592 of them perform the Latin Mass — including at least six in New York City and four (including Most Precious Blood) in Western Pennsylvania.

The new Mass was designed in part to involve worshipers more, but Ms. Graziosi found her mind — and faith — wandering until she sought out the Latin Mass back at her childhood parish ...

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 ...

Growing up in a rural enclave in western Pennsylvania, Gina McNulty regularly attended Catholic Mass with her family each Sunday. But something always felt missing about the experience, Ms. McNulty ...

Miami’s Latin Mass community growing. Miami’s Latin Mass community has more than doubled in the past five years — up from an average of 112 congregants in 2017 to 320 in 2023 — according ...

INDIANAPOLIS (RNS) — Despite restrictions, hundreds of Catholics came out to the first of two traditional Latin Masses offered at the National Eucharistic Congress, which will also feature four ...

Latin Mass, an ancient form of Catholic worship, is on the rise in the U.S., drawing a mix of traditionalists, young families, new converts and critics of Pope Francis.