Where there is incense, there is fire, at least when it comes to Catholics clashing over the liturgy. There was clashing aplenty today, with Pope Francis abolishing the chief liturgical initiative of ...

Feb. 21 official clarification confirms that a dispensation to use or erect a parish church for the celebration of the traditional Latin Mass in a diocese and permission for a priest ordained after ...

The proposal comes amid renewed tensions following Pope Francis’ 2021 motu proprio Traditionis Custodes, which significantly ...

Chicago Cardinal Blase J. Cupich leads a catechesis session for World Youth Day pilgrims at the Parish of Our Mother of Perpetual Help in Panama City on Jan. 25, 2019. (CNS photo/Chaz Muth) On July 16 ...

France’s Catholic bishops expressed “esteem” on Saturday for the people and pastors of Traditional Latin Mass communities following the publication of Pope Francis’ motu proprio Traditionis custodes.

VATICAN CITY — English Archbishop Arthur Roche is a key figure in what is offhandedly known as the Catholic Church's "liturgy wars." Pope Francis named the 71-year-old archbishop prefect of the ...

Cardinal Wilton Gregory today released a decree with the Liturgical Norms for the implementation in The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington of Traditionis Custodes, an apostolic letter issued ...

Altar server Bradley Morley leads the closing procession during a traditional Latin Mass July 1, 2021, at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Huntington, N.Y. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) Ever since ...

Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington promulgated liturgical norms July 22 for implementing Pope Francis' apostolic letter "Traditionis Custodes" ("Guardians of the Tradition"), which limits ...

Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago speaks during a luncheon at St. Genevieve School in Chicago Jan. 30, 2020. (Credit: Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic via CNS.) Listen NEW YORK – Pope Francis’s ...

On July 16, 2021, Pope Francis released the apostolic letter Traditionis custodes, a special papal motu proprio that sought to enforce specific guidelines on the liturgy of the Catholic Mass.