Cardinal Arthur Roche, prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, is seen in a file photo from Jan. 21, 2022. Credit: CNS photo/Paul Haring VATICAN CITY (CNS) — ...
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 ...
Little is known publicly about the closed-door conversations held among the world's cardinals when they gathered in Rome last week for Pope Leo XIV's first extraordinary consistory. But a leaked ...
Pope Francis greatly limited the use of the traditional Latin Mass, believing it sowed division. Traditionalist Catholics are hoping Pope Leo charts a different path. By Elisabetta Povoledo and Ruth ...
Pope Leo XIV and U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke pose for a photo in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Aug. 22, 2025. While the Vatican press office announced that the two met, it ...