which replaced the centuries-old Latin Mass in 1969. Taken together, the changes to the Mass, the Church calendar, and other features of Catholic liturgy constitute the most extensive alteration ...

Latin is the Church’s language, Roman and catholic as the Church is Roman and Catholic. Something is to be gained from the story of the woman who approached a priest after Mass with the ...

The Firelands Symphony Chorale, under the direction of Michael Shirtz, will present an uplifting and reflective choral ...

Members of the Latin Mass societies, Carey said, requested the visit “to secure their access to the traditional rites and sacraments of the Catholic Church (and) is in response to the rigid ...

Francis said he was restricting use of the Latin Mass out of concern ... number of sweeping changes to Catholic ritual and practice — including allowing for Mass to be recited in the vernacular.

The Latin Mass was abolished and church services were changed to be Protestant. Priests could marry. Catholic shrines, images and decorations were removed. Catholic Bishops who refused to follow ...

and at Mass, more Latin, fewer altar girls and reintroducing kneeling during communion. Sullivan reported what he saw as a shift to an earlier, pre-Vatican-II style of worship. Polling by Catholic ...