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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Diocesan bishops must have Vatican authorization to allow the celebration of the pre-Vatican II Mass in a parish church, to establish a new 'personal parish' for devotees of the old Mass or to allow its celebration by a priest ordained after July 2021 when Pope Francis issued rules restricting the celebration, he said. Any bishop who has granted a dispensation from those rules must inform the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, 'which will as

Pope Francis has unequivocally confirmed that bishops must obtain authorization from the Holy See before granting permission to celebrate the pre-Vatican II Mass in parish churches.

Those who would call themselves Christians must choose which side to take. Those who choose Christ choose peace. Those who unleash war and violence betray the Lord and deny his Gospel. What Jesus teaches us is clear: we are to love everyone, since everyone is loved as a child of our common Father in Heaven. The love of Christians is not only for those close to us, but for everyone, for in Jesus each person is our neighbour, our brother or sister.

More than a century ago the Vatican cracked down on a small liturgical group within the Church in an effort to establish unity, to disastrous results. Is history repeating itself with today’s traditionalists?

Pope Francis celebrated Mass with around 1 million people in Kinshasa, DRC, on Feb. 1, 2023. / Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Feb 1, 2023 / 04:30 am (CNA).More than one million people attended Pope Francis' Mass in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday morning, according to local authorities.The Mass in Kinshasa, DRC's capital city, took place on the airfield of the N'Dolo Airport on the second day of the pope's trip to two countries in central and east Africa.Catholics attended a prayer vigil with confessions and music the night of Jan. 31; some people who traveled from far away stayed a...