Author: Mark Docherty

The Mass of the Saints deserves better than this!

Today is the first Sunday when Traditional Catholics in the geographically large Diocese of Charlotte find themselves evicted from the four Diocesan Churches where the Traditional Latin Mass was allowed up until now. If you’re not familiar with the area, look at a map of the state. Find Charlotte in the center of the state, near the border with South Carolina. Then find Greensboro to the northeast, approaching the Virginia border. Then go westward all the way over to the borders of Tennessee and Georgia. Once upon a time there were about nine or ten parish churches that held The Mass on Sunday. These locations were spread out so that people living in the mountains, foothills or the piedmont all had an option within an hour or two at the most. Now, they have what you see above. A 364-seat, former protestant place of worship, in the town of Mooresville, which is about 45 minutes due north of Charlotte. This for what were estimated to be 1,200 faithful across the entire Diocese.

Enter in the back door!

It’s very fitting that the entrance to this, the “Chapel of the Little Flower” is in the back of the building. Get to the back of the bus. Colored entrance in the back. Yep, those disgraceful directives from the Jim Crow days are back, this time directed against Traditional Catholics from their “synodal church” masters in occupied Rome and in this case, their shepherd in the chancery.

If it doesn’t look like a Catholic Church…

You can complete that sentence yourself but here are my observations after visiting this new ghetto – oops, I meant to say chapel – for the segregated Traditional Catholics in the Diocese of Charlotte. In his September 26th letter to the affected parishes that formerly said the Traditional Latin Mass, Bishop Michael Martin OFM Conv. said “This chapel is not a parish, nor is it a parish-like community being formed for those who desire to celebrate the TLM.” He wasn’t kidding because the chapel DOES NOT include the following:

• Stations of the Cross. Seriously? They couldn’t go to FedEx/Kinkos and at least print out some Stations to mount on foam board and tack on the sparse walls?
• Confessionals. Traditional Latin Mass Catholics by and large take the Sacrament of Reconciliation seriously – especially before assisting at Mass and receiving Communion. At minimum, an accordion-fold screen confessional in the back would suffice. But, back to his letter, Martin made it clear that this is not a place to get attached to. Nope, you must partake in the Sacraments at your (novus ordo) parish church.
• Devotionals. Even the poorest of Catholic Churches have either a side altar or a devotional statue somewhere of the Blessed Mother, the Sacred Heart, or another. Not here. Lay Catholics in possession of statues would happily donate one or more if requested.

To all the priests in the Charlotte Diocese who know how to say the Traditional Latin Mass…

…Say it. Publically. In your parish church.

Bishop Martin’s authority only goes so far. He does not have the right to allow or deny the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. None. If you’re not comfortable with re-establishing the public TLM you had, have private, unannounced TLMs – in your parish church – when there just happen to be people in the church, enjoying personal prayer or adoration.

Souls are at risk and if you think that Trads in the Charlotte Diocese are strong enough to wait this out, I invite you to ponder on what happened world-wide in 1969 when the novus ordo was thrust upon Catholicism. How many people have you run across – especially now – who say “I was raised Catholic but am now non-practicing”?

Trust in the Divine Providence! I can’t say that enough. God WILL PROVIDE and even if ignoring this increasingly obvious antichurch leads to your martyrdom, what’s more important? Dying a martyr for the Faith or having to (unsuccessfully) explain away effeminacy at your personal judgement because you were worried about earthly, monetary possessions or your good standing?

Why priests should continue to say the Traditional Latin Mass without apology:

Session 3 of the Council of Trent, Canon 13: If anyone says that the received and approved rites of the Catholic Church, accustomed to be used in the sacraments, may be despised or omitted by the ministers without sin and at their pleasure, or may be changed by any pastor of the churches to other new ones, let him be anathema.

https://substack.com/inbox/post/175343772?

“…where climate justice replaces divine justice and the “Cry of Mother Earth” is heard but not the cry of unborn babies, where the United Nations serves as the moral voice for Catholics.”

By Elizabeth Yore

This is Prevost’s Pachamama moment.

For 24 hours, Papa Prevost trended on X-not as a heroic spiritual figure, but as a social media laughingstock.

“Is this real?”

“This is a SNL skit, right?”

“Leo hit an iceberg and is going down like the Titanic.”

This video emerged from the highly produced Vatican news service to commemorate the “Raising Hope for Climate Justice” Vatican Climate Change Conference celebrating the 10 year anniversary of Bergoglio’s eco encyclical Laudato Si. Look closely as the Vatican camera dramatically zooms to capture droplets of water dripping from the melting block of ice imported from Greenland. Get the message? Catastrophic global warming is here.

Participating in Prevost’s Ice Cube scam was none other than that renowned climatologist and environmental scientist, Arnold Schwarzenegger, who gave the keynote address at the climate event.

Why, Arnold the Terminator?

As they say in Chicago, Papa Prevost has clout, deploying Hollywood’s “action hero” to buttress and bulk up his papal eco agenda. When you don’t have the facts and science on your side, deploy the glitz of celebrity Hollywood to lure the peasants. Incredibly in his address, Leo conceded the argument that science and statistics are irrelevant to the debate:

“We must shift from collecting data to caring; and from environmental discourse to an ecological conversion that transforms both personal and communal lifestyles.”

Case closed. Now that they have lost the science debate, you are now canceled from discussing “the science.” From the Barque of Peter, Leo commands “ecological conversion.” How ironic that the Pope of Dialogue and Listening urges “no more environmental discourse” and urges that humanity submit to the globalists’ ecological tyranny of the UN Agenda 2030.

In his opening address, Papa Prevost sounded more like a Chicago ward committeeman than the Vicar of Christ:

“Moreover, Pope Francis emphasized that “the most effective solutions will not come from individual efforts alone, but above all from major political decisions on the national and international levels”. Everyone in society, through non-governmental organizations and advocacy groups, must put pressure on governments to develop and implement more rigorous regulations, procedures and controls. Citizens need to take an active role in political decision-making at national, regional and local levels. Only then will it be possible to mitigate the damage done to the environment. Local legislation will also be more effective if neighboring communities support the same environmental policies (cf. Laudato Si’, 179).

Don’t expect the New Synodal Church of Bergoglio and Prevost to promote, celebrate or teach Catholic magisterium, dogma or revealed Truth. The Catholic Church is now on the move, christened as the New Synodal Church, no longer as the Spotless Bride of Christ, but serving the universal masters at the United Nations.

Leo reveals his great hope and ambitions for the radical, anti-Catholic upcoming climate conferences at the UN which promote global migration and carbon tyranny on humanity.

“It is my hope that the upcoming international summits of the United Nations — the 2025 Climate Change Conference (COP 30), the 53^rd Plenary Session of the Committee on World Food Security, and the 2026 Water Conference — will listen to the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor, families, indigenous peoples, involuntary migrants and believers throughout the world. At the same time, I encourage everyone, especially young people, parents and those who work in local and national administrations and institutions, to play their part in finding solutions for today’s “cultural, spiritual and educational challenges” (Laudato Si’, 202), always striving tenaciously for the common good. There is no room for indifference or resignation.”

Papa Prevost employs a new prissy and emotive language into the documents of the New Synodal Church, sounding like New Age guru. It was fully on display during his Raising Hope for Climate Justice speech:

“Besides spreading the message of the Encyclical, it is now more important than ever to return to the heart. In Scripture, the heart is not only the center of feelings and emotions, but the locus of freedom. Although the heart includes reason, it transcends and transforms it, influencing and integrating all aspects of the person and his or her fundamental relationships. The heart is the place where external reality has the greatest impact, where the deepest searching takes place, where the most authentic desires are discovered, where one’s ultimate identity is found, and where decisions are formed. It is only by returning to the heart that a true ecological conversion can take place.”

Read the rest: https://lizyore.substack.com/p/welcome-to-your-new-synodal-church

When one loves, one does not calculate.

How sweet is the way of Love! True, one may fall, one may not be always faithful, but Love, knowing how to draw profit from all, very quickly consumes whatsoever may displease Jesus, leaving naught but humble and profound peace in the innermost soul.

Do not imagine that love can be found without suffering, for we carry with us our human nature; and yet, what a source of merit it is!

We who run in the way of love shouldn’t be thinking of sufferings that can take place in the work of creation.

It is true that Love knows no such word as “impossible,” for it deems “all things possible, all things allowed.”

I love you, Jesus, and bear in mind the words of St. John of the Cross: ‘The least act of pure love is of more value than all the other works put together.’

(Little Flower, St. Therese of the Holy Face, pray for us.)

Notice how telling that opening sentence is. People like this can’t help themselves. The behavior is considered compulsive for this very reason.

“I am not terribly familiar with the particular case. I think it’s important to look at the overall work that a senator has done during, if I’m not mistaken, in 40 years of service in the United States Senate,” the Pope told reporters on Tuesday in response to a question from EWTN News.

(oh, so you are totally familiar with the case. Okay.)

“I understand the difficulty and the tensions. But I think as I myself have spoken in the past, it’s important to look at many issues that are related to the teachings of the Church.”

“Someone who says I’m against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life,” the pope explained. “Someone who says I’m against abortion but I’m in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don’t know if that’s pro-life.”

“So they are very complex issues and I don’t know if anyone has all the truth on them,” he continued, “but I would ask first and foremost that they would have respect for one another and that we search together both as human beings and in that case as American citizens and citizens of the state of Illinois, as well as Catholics, to say that we need to be close to all of these ethical issues. And to find the way forward as a Church. The Church teaching on each one of those issues is very clear.”

(“I don’t know if anyone has all the truth on them…” oh really… exactly which Office do you claim to hold right now, and which Church do you claim to lead?)

Video, in plain English:

https://x.com/RaymondArroyo/status/1973129208751616030

Click to read it all.