ROME - Inside the frescoed nave of a church near the Colosseum, women in black veils and clean-cut young men listened in reverent silence to a largely forbidden rite: a Roman Catholic Mass in Latin. A ...
Pope Leo XIV and U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke pose for a photo in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Aug. 22, 2025. While the Vatican press office announced that the two met, it ...
Pope Francis greatly limited the use of the traditional Latin Mass, believing it sowed division. Traditionalist Catholics are hoping Pope Leo charts a different path. By Elisabetta Povoledo and Ruth ...
On the first Sunday of his papacy, Pope Leo XIV stood on the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica and chanted the Marian prayer "Regina Caeli" in Latin. While many consider Latin chant controversial ...