Gaslighting the Faithful, by Andrea Madrigal

On October 12, Fr. David Carter, the pastor and rector of the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul—located in the Diocese of Knoxville, where a Vatican order has indicated that all diocesan TLMs cease by late November—gave a homily titled “Treasures New and Old,” in which he spoke about the events that have shaken the diocese. His sermon, however, was not a defense of the faithful’s liturgical rights to possess what their Catholic ancestors gave their blood for but rather something more disturbing.

I know by now that I shouldn’t be surprised by anything that comes from the clergy, and yet Fr. Carter’s words left me in shock. This is a man who is supposed to be the father, the shepherd to hundreds of grieving sheep as they are spiritually abused at the hands of their bishop and Rome; but instead, his reaction was to try to gaslight those very souls he is in charge of into eating the stones they are being given in place of bread. In this article, I intend to examine this sermon more closely as a response to Fr. Carter’s words. As a regular TLM attendee myself, I grieve with my fellow Catholics in the diocese of Knoxville, as I cannot imagine what life would be like without the Traditional Latin Mass. …

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