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Article: Littleton parish out front On cutting edge, church celebrates old Latin Mass.(News)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- July 11, 2007
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Byline: Jean Torkelson, Rocky Mountain News
A Littleton parish which has been celebrating a 1,500-year-old form of the Mass suddenly finds itself on the cutting edge of Catholicism.
Last week Pope Benedict XVI gave the go-ahead to go back to a wider use of the so-called Tridentine Mass, or the old Latin Mass. Until 1970 it was the only Mass Catholics had known for more than a millennium.
"This is a legitimate affirmation from Rome about the Latin Mass - that it's not taboo or frowned upon or suspicious," said the Rev. Joseph Hearty, associate pastor at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Latin Mass Community in Littleton.
Latin fell out of wide ...