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Mardi Gras celebration in Binche, Belgium. / Marie-Claire/wikimedia. (CC BY 3.0 SA)Denver, Colo., Feb 26, 2022 / 07:21 am (CNA).Sunday, Feb. 27 is Septuagesima Sunday, followed by Sexagesima, and Quinquagesima Sundays. Sunday kicks off Carnival season, which comes right before Shrovetide, which culminates in Shrove Tuesday - more popularly known as Mardi Gras.If all but the last of those holidays sounds foreign to you, you are likely not alone - they haven't been officially a part of the Roman Rite's liturgical calendar since the 1960s, after the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.These str...

The prostration of the ordinands at the Fraternity of St. Peter's Roman Parish, Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini, June 27, 2013 / Alan Holdren/CNADenver Newsroom, Feb 21, 2022 / 10:02 am (CNA).The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, a society of apostolic life which celebrates the Roman rite according to the liturgical books in force in 1962, published Monday a papal decree confirming their faculty to use those books.The FSSP forms priests for the use of the traditonal form of the Roman Rite, and having formed them, deploys priests in parishes for the service of the Church.The priestly fr...

Solemn Mass is celebrated at St. Clement Parish, Ottawa, Canada, which is entrusted to the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP). / Public Domain.Vatican City, Feb 22, 2022 / 09:55 am (CNA).Pope Francis has allowed the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) to continue celebrating according to the ancient rite with a decree delivered directly to members of the Fraternity who visited him on Feb. 4.The news appeared on Feb. 21 on the community's official website, which reproduced the decree. The document, however, was not officially communicated through a bulletin of the Holy See press office...

New York canonist Father Gerald Murray has said that a recent Vatican document on applying Traditionis Custodes goes beyond what is canonica...

The Palace of the Holy Office, which houses the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. / Lalupa via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Vatican City, Feb 15, 2022 / 05:05 am (CNA).Pope Francis issued a document on Monday restructuring the powerful Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF). He announced the changes ahead of the publication of his long-awaited blueprint for the reform of the entire Roman Curia. The pope unveiled the CDF's new structure in a text issued motu proprio, or "on his own impulse." This was the 48th motu proprio since his election in 2013, confirming ...