Finding What Should Never Have Been Lost: Priests and the Latin Tridentine Mass

Mon, 26 Nov 2018 15:49:53 -0500
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After Pope Paul VI introduced the Novus Ordo Mass in 1969, the older form of the Roman rite—sometimes known as the Tridentine Mass, the Old Mass, the Traditional Latin Mass, and, more recently, the Extraordinary Form—virtually disappeared from many dioceses. Its celebration was severely restricted, if not banned outright, and became a source of controversy.