On Nov. 30, the Church marks the 50th anniversary of when the Novus Ordo, or “Mass of Paul VI,” made its debut as the dinary form of the Roman Rite of the sacred liturgy. St. Paul VI had promulgated ...

I’ve never been to a Tridentine (Latin) Mass. I know that seems quite scandalous to some and quite trivial to most. The truth is that I’d love to go. I’ve got nothing against it. I’ve just never had ...

It’s there on every dollar bill. Turn it over and read the legend under the pyramid–“novus ordo seclorum”–“a New Order of the Ages.” Hollywood makes it the center of a treasure hunt. Religious nuts ...

The West will be saved only when we begin to believe again that the Church is the sole source of divine truth. ‘And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born ...

FOLLOWING the Second Vatican Council, particularly the promulgation of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium, Rome issued a series of directories, guidelines, motu proprios ...

On the back of the great seal is the Latin phrase, Novus Ordo Seclorum, or “new order of the ages.” How exactly did the Constitution usher in this new order? What precisely was new about it? What was ...