Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Easter Mass as pontiff with a call Sunday to lay down arms and seek peace to global conflicts through dialogue, but he departed from a tradition of listing the ...

The first U.S.-born pope emphasized Easter’s message of hope as a celebration of Jesus’ resurrection after being crucified.

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 ...

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) — ...

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 ...