Recent edicts and explanations of edicts out of Rome have ignited a familiarly unpleasant conflict in the U.S. church. And yet, though this will infuriate a vocal minority of my fellow Catholics, I just don’t get the brouhaha over the traditional Latin Mass.
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Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Vatican clarifies rules for the celebration of the Tridentine Latin Mass
A new document from the Vatican congregation that oversees Mass and the sacraments offers responses to questions some bishops have asked about restrictions on the celebration of the pre-Vatican II liturgical rite.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Cardinal Cupich: Pope Francis’ Latin Mass reforms are necessary to secure Vatican II’s legacy
Pope Francis wants all Catholics to recognize that Vatican II and its reforms are not only authentic actions of the Holy Spirit but also are in continuity with the tradition of the church.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Pope Francis did not create the divisions around the Latin Mass. He inherited them.
What Francis has done is to reestablish the priority of Vatican II in our liturgical life. He is saying, essentially, that no one can take an end run around it.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Review: ‘Mass of the Ages’ uses classic propaganda tactics to make the case for the Latin Mass
If only the priest would turn his back on members of the congregation, the movie’s logic goes, and recite the liturgy in a language they don’t understand, the pews would be full and the seminaries overflowing.
Posted inFaith, Of Many Things
Whether the Mass is in Latin or the vernacular—it’s the same Eucharist that unites the church
I am awestruck by the beauty of the Eucharist wherever I encounter it. That’s a big reason why the so-called liturgy wars bore me.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I love Latin Mass and Pope Francis. Please don’t let a few (very loud) traditionalists ruin it for the rest of us.
Many Catholics are now devastated to lose access to a treasured rite that has nourished their spiritual lives for decades.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
The Latin Mass took off in this North Carolina diocese. What will happen under Pope Francis’ new restrictions?
It was the motu proprio heard around the Catholic world, but perhaps nowhere more loudly than in Boone, N.C.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Many Catholics who felt lost after Vatican II found comfort in the Latin Mass. Now, they are hurting again.
I pray for unity in the church. I pray also for the consolation of fellow Catholics, who may now be denied that portion of the church’s tradition that has nourished their faith, as it once did mine.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
As a deaf Catholic, the Latin Mass gives me equal access to the liturgy
If the Latin Mass that I attend currently were to cease, I would be back to square one for determining which aspects of myself I am willing to sacrifice on Sunday.