Article: Vatican grants a revival for old-style Latin Mass

The aficionados of the Latin Mass in the Roman Catholic Church are a committed bunch.

The Rev. Charles J. Higgins was ordained to the priesthood in Boston long after the Latin Mass had been relegated to the history books - but he read about it, heard about it, and became so enamored of its beauty that he taught himself to celebrate the age-old rite by watching a training tape.

Christine Quagan of West Roxbury is so passionate about the old- style Mass - complete with whispered prayers, a priest facing away from the congregation, and periods of silence - that she organized a group of Catholics from the area to agitate for wider use of Latin Mass.

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