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Amid singing, clapping, and dancing to traditional Congolese music, Pope Francis celebrated the Zaire Use of the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite in St. Peter’s Basilica on Sunday. The pope began his ...

Catholics and even non-Catholics around the world have recently been imploring Pope Francis to refrain from implementing a rumored ban on the Tridentine Mass, also known as the Traditional Latin Mass ...