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 ...

A few thousand pilgrims, many of them young families with multiple children and the women covering their heads with lace veils, packed the altar area of the basilica to standing room-only capacity.

When a person dies, certain rituals are observed if the body remains at home overnight. Among Catholics, the funeral never ...

A top American cardinal has celebrated a traditional Latin Mass in St. Peter's Basilica with the explicit permission of Pope Leo XIV, a significant departure from Pope Francis, who had sharply ...

Cardinal Raymond Burke celebrated a special Traditional Latin Mass for hundreds of pilgrims in St. Peter’s Basilica on Oct. 25 — a return to a prior custom, suspended since 2022, of an annual ...

Up to 90% of women sentenced to prisons in the US are survivors of sexual and physical violence, either in childhood, adulthood or both. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer recently announced her ...

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone celebrates the Pontifical Low Roráte Mass at the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption on Dec. 13, 2022. (photo: Archdiocese of San Francisco / Dennis Callahan ) ...

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 ...