He attends the Latin Mass at St. Anne Catholic Church in Logan Heights. Shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic, my wife and I received a diagnosis for our son as on the autism spectrum.

The Rev. Trenton Rauck, right, and Deacon Tomas Mackevicius celebrate the Latin Mass at St. John Cantius Catholic Church in Chicago on Sept. 18, 2022.

It’s the kind of Catholic Mass your grandparents might remember: The liturgy is spoken in Latin, the choir sings Gregorian chants and women wear chapel veils, or “mantillas.” But, this ...

Four decades ago, Gary Velder and some like-minded Roman Catholics would gather in motel rooms to experience Mass their preferred way: in Latin. Until the 1960s, all Roman Catholic Masses were in ...

But the traditional Latin Mass never completely vanished; today of the 17,000 Catholic parishes in the United States, 592 of them perform the extraordinary form in Latin — including at least six ...

Denver, Colo., Aug 7, 2021 / 12:00 pm. Last week, I (Autumn Jones) wanted to check out the Traditional Latin Mass for the first time. I’ve always attended the Novus Ordo and knew little about ...

New restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass, which uses the Roman Missal of 1962, came as a result of Pope Francis’ July 2021 motu proprio Traditionis custodes.. The document imposed new ...

INDIANAPOLIS (RNS) — Despite restrictions, hundreds of Catholics came out to the first of two traditional Latin Masses offered at the National Eucharistic Congress, which will also feature four ...

On January 15, 2022, the Catholic archbishop of San Francisco, Salvatore Cordileone, celebrated Mass at St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral, at Mott and Prince Streets, in Manhattan. The cathedral ...

Some Latin Mass–goers have responded to the restrictions by turning to liturgies offered by breakaway groups. The SSPX website says that about 25,000 Americans attend its liturgies.

A Latin Mass that took place at the U.S. Capitol in January was not authorized by the Washington Archdiocese, which has procedures in place for such requests, church officials told OSV News.

Latin Mass was the standard service given by Catholic churches worldwide until the mid-1960s, when it was abolished as part of the Second Vatican Council in an effort to make the religion more ...