{"id":48607,"date":"2025-06-04T17:39:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T17:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=48607"},"modified":"2025-06-04T17:39:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T17:39:22","slug":"after-backlash-charlotte-bishop-grants-request-to-pause-restrictions-on-latin-mass-to-allign-with-vaticans-october-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=48607","title":{"rendered":"After Backlash, Charlotte Bishop Grants Request to Pause Restrictions on Latin Mass to Allign with Vatican\u2019s October Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Gateway Pundit reported<\/a> on the efforts by Bishop Michael Martin to cancel all but one of the Traditional Latin Masses (TLM) in the Diocese of Charlotte in North Carolina.<\/p>\n

After widespread media coverage by TGP and others, and outrage from parishioners and Catholics worldwide, Bishop Martin has announced a decision to \u201cpause\u201d his efforts to suppress TLM until the Vatican\u2019s October deadline, instead of the July 8 deadline he proposed.<\/p>\n

Bishop Martin has now accepted a request from four parish priests, who sent a letter expressing concerns over the changes, to wait until the Vatican\u2019s October 2nd to implement any changes.<\/p>\n

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The letter which four priests of the Diocese of Charlotte sent to their bishop before his draconian restrictions on the TLM, urging him to change course.
\n(from the Charlotte Latin Mass Community page on Facebook) pic.twitter.com\/fFG432P0EU<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Matthew Hazell (@M_P_Hazell) May 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Per Catholic News Herald:\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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Changes to Traditional Latin Mass offerings in the Diocese of Charlotte will take effect Oct. 2 to align with a deadline mandated by the Vatican \u2013 not July 8 as previously planned, Bishop Michael Martin announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The new date allows more time for the transition and for renovation of a chapel designated for the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) community, Bishop Martin said in an email to priests Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The move is the final phase of the diocese\u2019s gradual implementation of Pope Francis\u2019 2021\u00a0instruction,\u00a0Traditionis Custodes<\/em>, which prescribes limits on the Traditional Latin Mass in dioceses around the world but allows bishops to set up alternate worship sites.<\/p>\n

The diocese is setting aside a chapel in Mooresville for celebration of the TLM, which averages approximately 1,100 regular attendees each week. They currently worship at four diocesan\u00a0churches using the older form of the Mass, which uses prayers and a calendar predating the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Catholic scholar Dr. Peter Kwasniewski shared the disturbing document, titled \u201cTraditionis Custodes Implementation in the Diocese of Charlotte 2025: Responses to Concerns,\u201d which Bishop Martin sent to parish priests to provide talking points to gaslight those who dare push against his efforts.<\/p>\n

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Charlotte Bishop Preps priests to answer questions on why the TLM is being taken away. pic.twitter.com\/wwiDjyiga0<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Chris Jackson (@BigModernism) May 26, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Martin has tried to quell the uproar by suggesting the leaked document was only \u201can early draft\u201d.<\/p>\n

Rorate<\/i> Caeli<\/i> <\/a>published the letter on May 28, which includes Martin condemning additional Catholic traditions, including:<\/p>\n