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Good News from Arlington: FSSP Entrusted with New Chaplaincy of Our Lady of Victory pic.twitter.com/oHJhaygeiW
— Arlington Latin Mass Society (@tlmarlington) June 21, 2026
I’m informed that the bishop of Camden will suppress the faithful who desire to worship God via the Traditional Latin Mass as of next Sunday (last Mass).
More on that as it develops.
What the heck is going on?
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Good Lord, Father.
Does this mean he’s going to crush Mater Ecclesiae?
The FSSP Chaplaincy in Arlington is not great news. If anything, it signals that Bishop Burbidge has absolutely no plans to reverse or lift any of the restrictions he’s enforced against the TLM communities in his diocese, and the FSSP are just being brought in to shore things up as we head into the foreseeable future. So, just to offer the full context:
-Bishop Burbidge has completely suppressed the TLM at 13 locations.
-He kicked 5 of the remaining 8 out of the parish church buildings and into school gyms and parish halls (which the faithful had to renovate at their own expense)
-Of the remaining 3 locations still in church buildings, he’s forced them to randomly cancel one of their Sunday Masses ever month
-He’s ordered the priests offering the TLM to, so far as I understand, violate the 1962 Rubrics by only chanting the Epistle and Gospel in English
-He’s forbid any diocesan priests from doing any baptisms or marriages in the Traditional Rite.
-He enforced, for years, the proscription of publishing any Latin Mass times in local parish bulletins (I know my own pastor received a call from the Chancery when a Mass time was accidentally included in an insert in a bulletin)
-He only allows the faithful to have baptisms and marriages in the Traditional Rite if they can find an FSSP priest witch which they have a long-standing relationship, and that FSSP priest has to write a letter to the bishop explaining the nature of that long-standing relationship before the bishop will give permission for the baptism or marriage to proceed.
-He’s completely forbid Confirmation and (in a truly uncharitable move) Extreme Unction in the Traditional Rite within the borders of his diocese
-If one of the laity seek to get Confirmation outside his diocese, he requires the faithful to have their pastor write him a letter requesting Confirmation at another location and then everyone must wait for the bishop’s approval
And now, on the positive side:
-Many years after these restrictions have been in place he’s allowing two FSSP priests to enter the diocese to apparently roam around like Caine from Kung Fu, offering baptism and/or marriage and perhaps saying Mass (in pre-approved locations, of course).
So, yeah, as one who lives in this diocese I can’t say that I’m jumping for joy.