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 ...

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 ...

Contenders for pope emerge from the U.S., Asia, and Africa—raising the chance of a non-European successor to Francis.

The late Cardinal ... Ratzinger led the general congregations at which the cardinals discussed the needs of the church. He also preached and presided at the funeral of Pope John Paul II and at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- A special mass Monday morning in Chicago marked the life and legacy of Benedict XVI, the late pope emeritus, who died on Saturday at age 95. Cardinal Blase Cupich led worshippers ...

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 ...