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.

• 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 ...

St. Walburge’s Church, in Ashton-on-Ribble, is planning to restore its sanctuary area to a layout its parish priest believes is more suited to the traditional Latin Masses still celebrated there.

Instead of seeing the Latin Mass as a source of vitality in the Church, Francis denounces it as a rallying point of dissent. The celebration of the old rite, he argued in a letter to bishops that ...

The restoration will see the dismantling of the second ‘nave’ altar, which incorporated some aspects of the sanctuary rail that was removed in 1972, the rest of which has been kept in storage.

Communicants approached the altar standing, rather than kneeling at the Communion rail. Some served as “extraordinary” eucharistic ministers. For the first time since the 1100s, the chalice ...

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.

They do. Most have been hearing Latin masses for long and the missals have the Latin text on the left page and the English translation on the right. And as in any traditional Latin mass, the priest ...

Unsettled by the sight of a child beating his chest while reciting “mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa,” I was distracted from figuring out on which page of the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) missal ...