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, ...

Ever since Summorum Pontificum took effect in September 2007, Mary Kraychy has heard many laudatory comments regarding the traditional Latin Mass. Kraychy is the executive director of the Coalition in ...

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 ...

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 ...

People kneel as they receive Communion during a Tridentine-rite Mass celebrated at the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican May 15. It was the first time in several decades that ...

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 ...

U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke gives his homily as he celebrates a traditional Latin Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica during the “Summorum Pontificum” pilgrimage with the approval of Pope Leo XIV Oct. 25, ...

Given below is the text of the English-language version of Benedict XVI's Letter to all the bishops of the world concerning his Motu Proprio "Summorum Pontificum," which was published today: "With ...