Transcript: Can America's Catholics Adapt to Tridentine Mass?

ANDREA SEABROOK
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
11-12-2006
Can America's Catholics Adapt to Tridentine Mass?

Host: ANDREA SEABROOK
Time 13:00-14:00 PM


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ANDREA SEABROOK, host:

For more than a thousand years, the Catholic Mass was a sacred ritual meant to invoke the mysteries of the divine, and the entire ceremony, called the Tridentine, was delivered in Latin. That changed in the 1960s, when the church ruled that Mass should be given in the vox populi, language of the people. Now Pope Benedict XVI is reportedly considering a decree that would revive the old Latin rite.

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