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The Ghost of Pope Francis Haunts Charlotte – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

The Ghost of Pope Francis Haunts Charlotte

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By Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, (Complicit Clergy), May 30, 2025

In a move that is going to be heavily scrutinized as it develops, Bishop Michael Martin of the Catholic diocese of Charlotte has decided to finalize the implementation of Pope Francis’s restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass. He is closing down several locations and allowing the celebration in a chapel in Mooresville.

His argument for doing so is that he is just obeying the rules and finalizing a process begun under his predecessor. Which makes perfect sense in a vacuum. But the fact is that many bishops in America seem to have been convinced that the problems these restrictions are meant to fix simply don’t exist in their dioceses. Also, given that the traditional liturgy of the church is now subject to papal football spiking, it may have been worth giving these existing communities a stay of execution until Pope Leo XIV weighs in on the issue.

This is a particularly painful enforcement because the diocese of Charlotte had several thriving communities built around the TLM. Charlotte is a fast-growing diocese as more and more Catholics move to the American South.

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