Article: A DEVOTION TO TRADITION AS CHURCH CLOSURES LOOM, LATIN MASS WORSHIPERS FEAR FOR PARISH'S FUTURE WORSHIPERS AT LATIN MASS FEAR FOR CHURCH'S FUTURE

Visitors to the noon Sunday Mass at Holy Trinity Church in Boston's South End might be forgiven for thinking time travel is possible.

Women and girls wear mantillas - a lightweight lace - to cover their heads. Only men are allowed in the sanctuary, the area hard by the altar. The priest faces east, just as the worshipers do, so for much of the service only his back is visible as he quietly mouths ancient prayers in Latin.

When the time comes for the homily, the priest climbs the steps into a pulpit - rarely seen in Catholic churches today - and at Communion, men and women, boys and girls kneel before another architectural relic, an altar rail, their mouths agape as they take care not to ...

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