Tridentine Rite

Traditional Catholics say the contrast between football screenings, communal suppers and restrictions on the 1962 Missal reveals an uneven pastoral approach

Thomas Colsy

A papal appeal for ecclesial unity, fresh details of the consistory and confirmation of a Peruvian journey have dominated the Vatican week

Michael Haynes

To avoid a new ecclesial wound, the Vatican must make every effort to distinguish the Church’s irreformable teachings from prudential judgements that remain open to respectful criticism

Dom Alcuin Reid

Pope Leo XIV has publicly addressed the SSPX consecrations for the first time, identifying the Society’s rejection of elements of Vatican II as the principal obstacle to reconciliation

Michael Haynes

The cleric argues that the Society of St Pius X’s concerns focus on unresolved doctrinal questions surrounding Vatican II rather than solely on the traditional Mass

Michael Haynes

Gratitude for the preservation of the old Mass does not require Catholics to accept that the SSPX is indispensable to Catholic tradition or to the life of the Church

Wouter J Suenens

The former Marian Franciscans have rejected claims concerning safeguarding, recruitment and ascetical practices following the suppression of their community

Thomas Colsy

The monks will offer votive Masses and Holy Hours for the unity of the Church in the weeks before the Écône consecrations

Thomas Colsy

What began in bewilderment and reluctance led, over time, to a profound rediscovery of the Traditional Latin Mass

Eduard Habsburg

The Holy Father said reform must distinguish between immutable elements of the liturgy and parts susceptible to legitimate change

Thomas Colsy