Priests are encouraged by interest in Latin mass

The Pope’s reported plan to make the old Latin mass more accessible to Catholics everywhere is encouraging news to a Brockville priest who has been celebrating the older rite for a quarter century. Father Brian Price, pastor at St. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church, told The Recorder and Times the Latin mass is a “beautiful” tradition worth preserving. “I think that’s a good thing,” he said Saturday of the Pope’s plan. “You can’t just jettison your own history.”