One culture within the Catholic Church needing major reform is that surrounding the practice of the Latin Mass. In a previous era, the Latin Mass was merely a uniform and standard way of celebrating ...

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In a change to church law, Latin-rite Catholic deacons may not preside at a wedding when one or both of the new spouses are members of an Eastern Catholic church. The new rule is one of the changes to ...

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A new Vatican document instructs bishops around the world to reintroduce the old Latin mass abandoned in the late 1960s if traditionalist Catholics in their areas request it. Pope Benedict first ...

MIRAMAR BEACH — "In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen." The ancient words — "In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen." — come almost soundlessly from the lips of ...

Upon his election to the papacy, Pope Francis became the first pontiff to hail from Latin America. His impact, though, stretched far beyond his home country of Argentina. When elected to the papacy, ...