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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...