Bishop Anthony B. Taylor reflects on the Trinity and Father's Day in a homily for the Jubilee Year Celebration Mass in ...

Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear weapons. But he upheld it in other areas, such as abortion and celibacy for priests.

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 ...

The tradition of lighting the Candle of Atonement was inspired by the Penitential Rite that Pope Francis composed and prayed at the final mass in the Phoenix Park during his visit to Ireland in 2018.

The Shorter Rite is to be used only if Communion is being brought to a large number of individuals in the same building and if they are unable to participate in the fuller rite. Even then, parts of ...

The official form of the Mass was codified following the Council of Trent in the 16th century. It remained the dominant form of Catholic liturgical worship until the promulgation of the Mass of ...

We acknowledge the fact that we are sinners every time we say a Hail Mary or participate in the Penitential Rite at Mass. That’s me, you, and every human person (except, of course, the Blessed ...

Likewise, a tour of the Mass highlights just how critical it is as the “core curriculum” for our lives as Catholics. We enter the Church, answering Jesus’s instruction to come to Him, to follow Him ...

According to the Roman Catholic Church’s Code of Canon Law, “Sacred places are violated by gravely injurious actions done in them with scandal to the faithful, actions which, in the judgment of the ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The head of St. Peter’s Basilica performed a special rite Saturday after a man stripped naked and hopped on the main altar with the words “Save children of Ukraina ...