Eastern-rite Catholics of the Syro-Malabar Church, who live in Latin-rite territories, say they face severe challenges in practicing their faith and traditions, reported UCA News. About 400 people ...

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 ...

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Francis said Monday he is opposed to the idea of optional priestly celibacy in the Latin Rite, and he would consider it only for very remote places if a serious need ...

LONDON — Cardinal Vincent Nichols has declined to give permission for the old Latin rite celebration of the Easter Triduum in Westminster, making it the first time since the 1990s that the Easter ...

A sense of reverence and tradition that some say is lost in today’s Catholic Mass has inspired a small but devoted group of Catholics to continue celebrating Mass in the Latin rite. The Tridentine ...

For centuries, the Catholic Mass was celebrated in Latin. But inthe 1960s, the reform-minded Second Vatican Council ordered thatthe rite be revised and celebrated in the local language. The Mass in ...

A new chapter has begun in the history of the Catholic Church in Syria. For the first time, one of its own sons has become bishop of the Latin-rite Catholics in Aleppo, in a country where “the ...

NEW HAVEN — At St. Peter’s Catholic Church in New Haven, Father Ray Atwood, dressed in the deep purple of the Lenten season, began the Mass on Sunday: “In nomine Patris, et Filii et Spiritus Sancti; ...

The Latin Mass that hundreds of thousands of Northeast Ohio Catholics grew up with lives. Barely. St. Rose of Lima on Cleveland's West Side recently discontinued the older rite, leaving Immaculate ...

Shown is a detail of text in Latin from a page of the 1962 Roman Missal. This 1996 reproduction of the missal is by Roman Catholic Books. (CNS file photo/Nancy Wiechec) Pope Francis has revoked the ...