Inside a nondescript building along the U.S. 190 service road that once housed a Mr. Fish pet store, there stands an opulent altar, surrounded by candles, majestic statues and floral bouquets. The ...

The traditional Latin Mass — the Tridentine Mass — has its roots in the early days of the church and was codified in the 1500s. Besides celebrating the Mass in Latin, priests faced the altar ...

A sacramentary is seen on the altar during a traditional Tridentine Mass July 18, 2021, at St. Josaphat Church in the Queens borough of New York City. (Credit: Gregory A. Shemitz/CNS.) Listen NEW ...

• Recipients of Communion kneel at the altar rail and receive the host on the tongue at the Latin Mass, but they do not say “Amen” after receiving the wafer. • The more common Mass ends in ...

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.

In Tiverton, R.I., when some parishioners suggested returning altar rails to the sanctuary of Holy Ghost Catholic Church, Father Jay Finelli gladly accepted, little knowing shortly thereafter the ...

During a Latin Mass, the priest largely faces away from the congregation and toward the Eucharist, ... There is also more time given to contemplation, and communion is given only at the altar rail.

Also, in a leaked set of liturgical norms that appear to have been written before Francis died, Martin opposed "hybrid liturgies" in which older traditions are blended into the modern Novus Ordo Mass.

Commentary: In the wake of much needed reforms instituted by the Second Vatican Council, the Latin Mass has become a rallying point for change-resistant sects within the church.