A Vatican document released Saturday imposed further restrictions on the pre-Vatican II liturgy, including a prohibition on listing Latin Masses in parish bulletins, Reuters reports. This document ...

The Vatican issued Saturday further strict guidelines on the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass, in response to questions about the motu proprio Traditionis custodes. The explanatory document, ...

The Vatican website has opened a Latin section for papal texts and religious resources translated into Latin. The main site at vatican.va links to the section under the Latin title “Sancta Sedes,” ...

The debate surrounding the traditional Latin Mass within the Catholic Church has intensified significantly in the early days of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate. It follows the alleged leak of Vatican ...

In this Nov. 19, 2014 file photo, Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Mueller arrives in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican to attend the weekly general audience held by Pope Francis. A second Catholic cardinal ...

(Editor's note: Starting on Oct. 11, 1962, Vatican II, formally known as the Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican or the Second Vatican Council, addressed relations between the Catholic Church and ...

ROMEROME — A second Catholic cardinal has questioned the legitimacy of a recent decree by the Vatican to restrict the celebration of the old Latin Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica and forbid private ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The Catholic Church's department for worship laid out the rationale for a July decree reversing Pope Benedict XVI's rules for the pre-Vatican II rite. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A new ...

Rodrigo Guerra Lopez, in an undated picture, with Pope Francis. In the background, Gustavo Gutierrez, on of the theologians behind Latin America’s Liberation Theology. (Vredit: Courtesy Gustavo Guerra ...

Rodrigo Guerra López, in an undated picture. This Mexican layman was appointed by Pope Francis as Secretary of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America. (Credit: Courtesy Gustavo Guerra López.) ...

VATICAN CITY — “Is there no Latin word for tea?” Hilaire Belloc once remarked. “Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.” Were the English Catholic writer alive today ...

A caravan of lay and religious leaders from Latin America traveled to Rome to garner the Vatican's support in ending the destructive mining practices that ravage communities across the region. "We ...