By Matthew McDonald, National Catholic Register - San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone plans to celebrate a solemn pontifical Latin high Mass at Star of the Sea Catholic Church in San Francisco at noon Saturday, Nov. 1, which is All Saints’ Day... Pontifical Masses are celebrated by a bishop; the “pontiff” in this case refers to any bishop, not just the pope. A solemn pontifical high Mass in the traditional Latin Rite is a rare form of the Mass... The solemn pontifical high Mass is the most elaborate of the Tridentine Rite Masses. A description of it takes up 20 pages in Adrian Fortescue’s 1920 book The Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described. ....