Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was the keynote speaker at a Vatican conference on the traditional Latin Mass in October 1998, seven years before he would become Pope Benedict XVI — whose funeral Pope ...

even then-Cardinal Ratzinger acknowledged in public statements that some aspects of the old low Mass left much to be desired. Certainly, readier access to the Latin Mass would thrill the core of ...

The organization noted that, prior to his election as Pope, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger promoted a “wide and generous application” of the traditional Latin mass. At a 1998 lecture in Rome before ...

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.

During his life as a priest, bishop, cardinal and prefect ... his work to allow more freedom to allow celebration of the Mass in Latin and to bring a more definitive English translation of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Speaking from Rome, Cardinal Raymond ... than language, Latin or vernacular. The themes and form differ markedly. Both are grounded in Christ’s Last Supper but the Old Mass’s emphasis is ...