The Catholic Church must continue to work to understand the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council and why they were made, rather than rethinking them, Pope Francis said. "After this ...

Pope Francis leads the Good Friday Liturgy of the Lord's Passion April 2, 2021, at the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Andreas Solaro, pool via Reuters) (RNS) — ...

If the pope asked you what you thought about Catholic liturgy, what would you say to him? What is going well? What needs to change? Bishop Claudio Maniago of Castellaneta, president of the Italian ...

After more than three years of preparation, the Second Vatican Council began in October of 1962, with ambitious goals for fostering a renewal in the Church’s mission in the modern world. But how would ...

Father Joseph Fitzgerald, pastor of St. William the Abbot Church in Seaford, N.Y., reads from a sacramentary while celebrating Mass at his parish Jan. 27, 2021. The Congregation for Divine Worship and ...

Orthodox Christians celebrate Candlemas on February 15. This is one of the twelve feasts of the church calendar, which is associated with both liturgical traditions and popular prohibitions. For more ...

In 1977, I was a freshman at the University of Nebraska. I was in the process of rediscovering my Catholic faith and decided to attend the Newman Center on campus. What I discovered there was the ...

Pope Francis rises the holy host during a Mass prior to the Corpus Domini procession from St. John at the Lateran Basilica to St. Mary Major Basilica to mark the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ, ...

Pope Francis celebrates Mass on the feast of Corpus Christi June 18 outside Rome's Basilica of St. John Lateran. (CNS/Tony Gentile, Reuters) Seeking to put an end to various attempts to roll back the ...

Four years after Pope Francis modified canon law to emphasize the responsibility of bishops' conferences for judging the accuracy and suitability of liturgical translations and adaptations, the ...