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Tag Archives: D. Charlotte
Report from the ground: Charlotte
A long-time reader and supporter here had a road trip to Charlotte, NC. He recounts for us his experience of a Sunday Mass. I’ll anonymize the comments to remove specific references and not post photos because I strongly suspect that … Read More
“I am the good shepherd”
And HERE Redemptionis Sacramentum 91
“Masses scheduled at impossible times”… Where have I heard that before?
Today in the Italian daily Il Foglio there is an article which starts… Catholics increasingly persecuted after the Agreement with China Human Rights Watch report: the situation has worsened after the agreement between Beijing and the Holy See. An assessment … Read More
What the Bishop of Charlotte is doing – UPDATE
UPDATE: A commentator pointed out… The photo in that first Tweet is not from the Diocese of Charlotte, though it is related to altar rails. https://www.facebook.com/groups/preservationsummorumpontificum/posts/979114669745334/ Apparently, Bishop of Boise, Idaho, ordered the disuse of altar rails in 2023 and … Read More
A message from Pope Leo to Charlotte
From Leo’s Christmas Address to the Roman Curia today. We can fall into the temptation of swinging between two opposite extremes: uniformity that fails to value differences, or the exacerbation of differences and viewpoints instead of seeking communion. Thus, in … Read More
Posted in Leo XIV, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Save The Liturgy - Save The World
Tagged D. Charlotte
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5 Comments
Forced unity is not unity. It’s uniformity.
It is hard to watch what is happening in the Diocese of Charlotte. It is hard to watch what is happening and wonder if there isn’t something seriously out of whack. It’s as if the 1980’s are back. First, the … Read More
Diocese of Charlotte: The community of the SSPX Chapel received a Papal Blessing
Rorate has more HERE but this is the short version. In a remarkable gesture of pastoral solicitude, Pope Leo XIV has extended an Apostolic Blessing to the Society of St. Pius X’s chapel in the Charlotte Diocese of North Carolina: … Read More
More pain in Charlotte and Greensburg – IMPORTANT UPDATE
UPDATE: 7 Nov 2025 A commentator, below, wrote: The Greensburg story might be fake news. https://thecatholicherald.com/article/diocese-of-greensburg-denies-banning-ad-orientem-for-novus-ordo-masses And also… Yeah, I just talked to a representative of the Diocese of Greensburg, and he confirmed that Bishop Koulick has made no restrictions … Read More
Posted in Pò sì jiù, SESSIUNCULA
Tagged altar rails, communion rails, D. Charlotte, D. Greensburg, kneeling
31 Comments
31 Comments
Another report of pain in the Diocese of Charlotte
I warmly recommend this piece at Crisis for your reading and your wide sharing with all whom you know. You may know the facts. The Bishop of Charlotte suppressed the people who had a Traditional Latin Mass in different locations, … Read More
Reactions on X to the Charlotte Pogrom and a last stab at the last Mass
I prepared this a couple days ago, but I didn’t post it. With this new tweet, however, it’s time to hit “enter”. It seems that the bishop forbade photos or video of the last TLM. We were hoping to share … Read More
ProfessorCover on KaBOOM – Fr. Joseph Gelineau: “The Roman rite as we knew it no longer exists. It is destroyed.”: “I am glad you mentioned Father Hunwicke because he also wrote several entries about how /why the bread and wine…”
