Ten years ago, Pope Benedict XVI issued his motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, which liberalized the use of the traditional Latin Mass and addressed a number of concerns about its use. Nonetheless, ...

“Every liturgical celebration, because it is an action of Christ the priest and of His Body which is the Church, is a sacred action surpassing all others,” the Second Vatican Council’s constitution on ...

ROME — Ten years after Benedict XVI broadened access to the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass, the document by which he did so is being hailed as a means of closing the rift of division ...

Today the Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei" May 13 published the Instruction on the application of Benedict XVI's Apostolic Letter Motu Proprio "Summorum Pontificum". The document, approved by the ...

More than 1,000 pilgrims gathered in Rome for an annual three-day pilgrimage for those devoted to the Traditional Latin Mass held Oct. 27–29. The Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage takes its name from ...

The fourth annual Summorum Pontificum Conference was held last Saturday in Rome to promote the understanding and use of the extraordinary form of the Roman rite, and to discuss the liturgical heritage ...

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Made public on 7 July 2007 an Apostolic Letter in the form of a Motu proprio of the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI in Latin with the title Summorum Pontificum, on the use ...

VATICAN CITY-- Pope Benedict XVI's easing of restrictions on use of the 1962 Roman Missal, known as the Tridentine rite, is just the first step in a "reform of the reform" in liturgy, the Vatican's ...

Michael Brendan Dougherty writes in praise of Pope Benedict XVI for establishing that the Tridentine Mass (also known as the “Latin Mass,” or the “Old Mass”) is always and everywhere licit. The papal ...

A review of Peter Kwasniewski’s new book, an eloquent apologia pro usu antiquiore. Disagreement over how the faithful should conduct their liturgy, or public worship, has dogged the Catholic Church ...

Bishop Edward J. Slattery of Tulsa, Okla., celebrates a solemn high Mass in the extraordinary form at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington April 24. It was ...