The Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA)
News release Contact: Mark Gray
August 24, 2009 202-687-0885
mmg34@georgetown.edu
Opinions about the Latin Mass have shifted over time
A Majority of adult Catholics express no opinion on return of older liturgy
Two years ago, Pope Benedict XVI gave permission for the 1962 Roman Rite
Mass to be used without a priest first acquiring a bishop’s approval.1 Using the Missal of
John XXIII, this Mass is celebrated in Latin with the priest and parishioners facing the
same direction toward the altar. It is the last version of the Latin Mass that was first
codified following the Council of Trent in the 16th century and is thus often referred to as
the Latin Tridentine Mass.2 Parish priests have been instructed by the Pope to work with
parishioners when there is a “stable group” who are interested in Latin Mass to provide
opportunities for this liturgy to be celebrated regularly under the guidance of their bishop…
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