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.

Father James Martin analyzes Pope Francis’ new decree.

The confrontational stranger who reminded me of the wages of sin probably had my best interest at heart.

The Most Rev. Edward K. Braxton, one of the few African American bishops in the Roman Catholic Church, rarely talks to the press. He recently agreed to visit at length with the Post-Dispatch. The topic was his new book, “The Church and the Racial Divide.”

A number of other U.S. bishops told their priests who celebrate the Mass in the extraordinary form and their parishes that already are allowed to have the celebration of this Mass that they can continue to do so while they further study the document.

The Latin Mass gave me a hunger for beauty and a reverence for the sacred. It also made me bitter and arrogant.