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 ) ...
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 ...
(RNS) — “Paris is well worth a Mass” was reportedly the attitude of King Henry IV when he was trying to secure the French throne. As a result, he converted from Protestantism to Catholicism in 1593.