Rorate Caeli: Archdiocese of Washington Facing Deep Financial Trouble After Restricting Latin Mass Parishes

DC Rosary Rally, Rorate Caeli, (LifeSiteNews), Dec 12, 2024 – 10:58 am EST

Crippling financial woes in the Archdiocese of Washington have only multiplied following Cardinal Wilton Gregory’s restrictions on flourishing Traditional Latin Mass parishes, with annual deficits tripling to $10 million.

(Rorate Cæli) — Two years ago, the Archdiocese of Washington decided to end the Traditional Latin Mass at Old St. Mary and five other parishes. Like much of the Church, the archdiocese had been experiencing rapid decline for decades. That decline was exacerbated by the revelation of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s sex abuse in the 2018 “Summer of Shame.” But through it all, the seven parishes with the TLM were among its most thriving and generous in the archdiocese.

Cardinal Wilton Gregory’s decision in 2022 to end the TLM at these parishes and replace it with three “Mass centers,” with only Sunday Mass and no parish life, was unbelievable. Particularly stunning was the cancelation of the Latin Mass at Old St. Mary in Chinatown. …

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