Heintschel is headmaster of a classical academy and lives in Escondido. He attends the Latin Mass at St. Anne Catholic Church in Logan Heights. Shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic, my wife and I ...

Reading the news and social media might lead you to think the only liturgical issue Catholics are concerned about is the Latin Mass. But there is another language problem in the Catholic liturgy that ...

FARGO — Every Sunday afternoon, Sara Ray climbs the stairs to the St. Mary’s Cathedral choir loft, a Gregorian chant book in her hand and a spark of heaven on her heart. At 2 p.m. sharp, she raises ...

Pope Francis' restoration of restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass was guaranteed to provoke uproar. Many who prefer the old rite (sometimes called the Tridentine Mass, or the extraordinary form) ...

INDIANAPOLIS (RNS) — A mile from the main events of the National Eucharistic Congress on Thursday (July 18) afternoon, Catholic after Catholic knelt on the hot surface of an overflow parking lot of ...

For many Catholics, the Holy Father’s motu proprio “Traditionis Custodes,” restricting the celebration of the Latin Mass, was a difficult document to read, as well as a surprise, even a shock. While I ...

A theological battle was recently resumed in Chicago, 500 years after it was fought in Europe. Like Martin Luther’s challenge to the 16th century papacy, the opening salvo of the rerun was marked by a ...

For the first time in more than 50 years, a Mass in Latin will be celebrated regularly at a church in Wichita Falls. Beginning Tuesday, June 6, St. Benedict Orthodox Church will have an Extraordinary ...

Among traditionalist Catholics in England, the “Agatha Christie” letter is a touchstone of memory, revered as one might an Elizabethan-era maniple preserved in a recusant house. So it is unsurprising ...

One Sunday afternoon each month, Kelly O’Neill and her husband, Mark, pack up their six children and drive from their home in Lancaster to South 12th Street in Reading. Their destination is St. Mary’s ...

Monsignor Charles Pope writes that the Traditional Latin Mass (which he supports) is a boutique phenomenon among American Catholics, and looks likely to stay that way: Some years ago (as far back at ...