Leo XIV Permits Latin Mass in Vatican

A few thousand pilgrims packed St. Peter's Basilica as Cardinal Raymond Burke celebrated a traditional Latin Mass with the explicit permission of Pope Leo XIV, a moment that thrilled Catholics who felt sidelined by Pope Francis's 2021 restrictions. Families with children filled the standing-room-only aisles amid incense, hymn, and bowed reverence. For organizers, the liturgy signaled Leo's promised push for unity and dialogue, even as Burke's homily leaned on Benedict XVI's 2007 reform. Some attendees, who once called themselves 'orphans,' left hopeful that the church's liturgy wars might finally ease.