The debate in the Catholic Church over the celebration of the old Latin Mass is heating up just as Pope Leo XIV's pontificate is getting under way, with the apparent leak of Vatican documents that ...

Seriously, it does. It's not easy to get used to the Divine Liturgy, but once you "get it," you wonder how anybody could worship in any other way, if this is what Christian worship is.

The Mass we went to is exactly the Mass we needed to go to at that moment. The church as it is, right here and right now, is exactly the way the church should be at this moment. God works in no ...

Archbishop Alexander Sample, shown celebrating Mass, says the aim of the ‘Archdiocesan Liturgical Handbook’ (shown below) is to emphasize the need to ‘celebrate the liturgy according to the ...

As record‑breaking heat waves scorch much of Europe — with triple‑digit temperatures, wildfires and deaths reported — the Vatican on Thursday (July 3) released a new liturgy for the Mass reflecting ...

The second center of focus for the liturgy is not God, but the people. With this view the horizontal is emphasized. The Mass becomes not so much the divine sacrifice, but the fellowship meal of ...

For these reasons, the council promoted the laity’s “full, conscious, and active participation” in the liturgy so that they may enjoy the “abundance of graces” available at Mass. Liturgy ...

Growing up in the 1960s, I worshiped at two parishes. Both were Roman Catholic. However, the celebration of Mass was very different as I went back and forth from summers in metropolitan Virginia ...

English-speaking Catholics are bracing for the biggest changes to their Mass since the 1960s, a shift some leaders warn could cause “ritual whiplash.” The overhaul, which will become mandatory ...

The words and music are different, thanks to the first major change of the English-language Mass in 40 years. ... Pa., did a trial run through the new liturgy with his parishioners.

Fifty years ago this weekend, the Catholic Church debuted a new version of Mass following reforms made by the 1960s’ Second Vatican Council. From the use of vernacular language instead of Latin ...

This plan provides for the possibility of the gradual return to the public celebration of Mass/Liturgy and prepares us for the Solemnity of Pentecost on the weekend of 30/31 May, ...