The first intervention about which Joseph Ratzinger was called “conservative ... True, he’d celebrated the Traditional Latin Mass many times as a cardinal, but he never did so as pope.

When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict ... He relaxed restrictions on celebrating the old Latin Mass and launched a crackdown on American nuns, insisting that the church stay true ...

Personal invitations to the cardinal — even by priests — to visit a local Latin Mass have been declined. Alternatives to keep a few Latin Masses alive at parishes in the archdiocese have been ...

specifically Latin Mass devotees struggling with restrictions imposed by Pope Francis, American Cardinal Joseph Tobin said they still have a place in the church. Asked during an Oct. 11 press ...

Effective September 21, celebration of the Latin Mass can take place on Sundays in three nonparochial churches in the archdiocese. Cardinal Gregory, in a letter to priests serving in the ...