Let’s set the record straight: Pope Francis did not “ban the use of Latin in the Roman Catholic Church,” as one person recently put it to me. He didn’t even ban Latin from the Mass. Pope ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Catholic priests will now be able to celebrate Mass “for the care of creation” after the Vatican ...

Father Stephen Saffron elevates the Eucharist during a Tridentine Mass at St. Josaphat Church in Queens, New York City, on July 18, 2021. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) ...

Although the Church criticized the slave trade in Africa, Catholic leaders were slow to support the abolition of slavery in the United States—“so opposed were they to the individualist (at ...

Still, well over 200,000 Catholics in the archdiocese do go to Mass each week. Recently, a group of about 30 of them were gathered for a parish event at St. John the Baptist Church in Manayunk ...

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 ...

Sunday, Jan. 20, 2008, Second Sunday in Ordinary ... The pastor of Holy Family Catholic Church in St ... business while children lead these same prayers in church. The two groups reunite for Mass.

If I go to the vigil Mass, it is at St. Joseph's Church, built by Irish migrant workers after the Civil War. If I go on Sunday morning, I usually attend St. Mary's Church, located about 300 yards ...

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.

Topline. P ope Leo XIV, the first American leader of the Catholic Church, previously known as Robert Francis Prevost, returned to the Sistine Chapel the day after his election to deliver a mass ...

Leo XIV, the first pope from the United States, presided over his first Mass as leader of 1.4 billion Roman Catholics on Friday, pledging to align himself with “ordinary people” and not with ...