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Is church unity worth a Latin Mass?

(RNS) — They should know that we are Christians by our love, not know that we are Catholics by our fights.
When the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris erupted in flames on April 15, 2019, the whole world came together to mourn the loss of great, ancient, sacred beauty that moved hearts and souls even beyond ...
EASTHAMPTON — It’s a fallacy to say that young people are only into new things. Despite push back from the Vatican against traditional Catholics in recent years, young people in particular are leading ...
ROME — Inside the frescoed nave of a church near the Colosseum, women in black veils and clean-cut young men listened in reverent silence to a largely forbidden rite: a Roman Catholic Mass in Latin. A ...
An annual requiem Mass that has been held at Westminster Cathedral in London for more than 50 years has been relocated amid the continued restrictions on the celebration of the traditional Latin Mass ...
Worshippers fill the pews at a traditional Latin Mass at St. Ann Catholic Church in Charlotte, N.C., June 1, 2025. (OSV News photo/Markus Kuncoro, Charlotte Latin Mass Community via Facebook) (OSV ...
On the first Sunday of his papacy, Pope Leo XIV stood on the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica and chanted the Marian prayer "Regina Caeli" in Latin. While many consider Latin chant controversial ...
On December 3, 2016, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone confirmed sixteen Catholics, both young and mature adults, at Mary Star of the Sea Church in San Francisco. There would be nothing ...
On the first Sunday of his papacy, Pope Leo XIV stood on the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica and did something that shocked some Catholics -- he chanted the Marian prayer Regina Caeli in Latin.