Most college students attending Mass on campus won’t know the title of the document, much less the number of bishops who voted for or against it. What they will experience is a community centered around the Eucharist, and that will be what matters most.

“I never imagined that Pope Francis would go back that strongly to what Vatican II said and uphold it.”

Many Catholics are now devastated to lose access to a treasured rite that has nourished their spiritual lives for decades.

It was the motu proprio heard around the Catholic world, but perhaps nowhere more loudly than in Boone, N.C.

I pray for unity in the church. I pray also for the consolation of fellow Catholics, who may now be denied that portion of the church’s tradition that has nourished their faith, as it once did mine.

Archbishop Di Noia: Pope Francis “fearlessly hits the nail on the head: the TLM (Traditional Latin Mass) movement has hijacked the initiatives of St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI to its own ends.”