Charlotte’s War on Reverence: A Priesthood Undone, by Sarah Cain

By Sarah Cain, Crisis Magazine, June 4, 2025

Sarah Cain, known as The Crusader Gal, is a political and cultural commentator who makes videos about the decline of the West, and she writes Homefront Crusade. She is the author of Failing Foundations: The Pillars of the West Are Nearing Collapse.

Running the Church of the 60’s playbook nicknamed “The Spirit of Vatican II,” Bishop Martin of the Diocese of Charlotte is stamping out tradition with the “Spirit of Traditionis Custodes.”

The leaked Liturgical Norms document from Bishop Michael Martin of the Diocese of Charlotte reads like a parody of 1970s fervor, delivered by a tyrannical hand through a series of ironically rigid dictates. They are poised to cause direct harm to the priests of the diocese and, through their pain, to faithful parishioners.

The man who claims that the liturgy is not the place for “our preferences” has decided to turn it into his playground. While slighting the decisions of individual parishes that reflect pastoral choices, he exercised his own whim with disregard to nuance. H…