I present two articles for your consideration, then decide for yourselves who or what these people are who continually smash the traditional Latin Mass under the watch of Leo -- who knows exactly what is going on. To think otherwise, is simply being foolish and blind to the truth!
Both articles are from lifesitenews.com, the first: Diocese of Austin shuts down planned Latin Mass for students at Texas A&M University - LifeSite and is written by LifeSiteNews staff Sat Sep 27, 2025 - 5:34 pm EDT
The second: Charlotte bishop says new Latin Mass chapel is not meant to fit everyone who wants to attend - LifeSite and is written by Emily Mangiaracina Mon Sep 29, 2025 - 3:36 pm EDT
The first...
"COLLEGE STATION, Texas (LifeSiteNews) — Catholic students at Texas A&M University in College Station will not have the opportunity to attend a planned Traditional Latin Mass after the Diocese of Austin ordered its cancellation.
A press release issued on September 24 by the student chapter of Juventutem International explains that an official from the Diocese of Austin, led by newly-installed Bishop Daniel Garcia, informed them they would not be allowed to bring in a priest from outside the diocese to offer the liturgy.
“The Mass was to be celebrated by a chaplain traveling from the Diocese of Victoria. On the evening before the liturgy, this priest was told by his Victoria bishop that he had received a directive from the Chancellor of the Diocese of Austin expressly forbidding him from traveling to College Station. This came after the pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Center, Father Will Straten, reported the Latin Mass to the Diocese of Austin,” the group said.
The Diocese of Victoria, Texas, was established in 1982. It is currently overseen by Bishop Brendan J. Cahill. Its chancellor is Msgr. Matthew Huehlefeld, J.C.L.
News of the cancelation is likely to increase the criticism currently being leveled against Garcia, who was named bishop of the Diocese of Austin on July 2, though he did not officially transfer to his new role until earlier this month.
Garcia made headlines last week when he announced in one of his final acts as bishop of Monterrey, California, that he would be shutting down the only Latin Mass available in the diocese in order to promote “unity” with Catholics who attend the Novus Ordo Mass. Garcia justified his efforts by citing Pope Francis’ 2021 document Traditionis Custodes, which greatly restricted the Latin Mass’ availability throughout the world.
“I invite you all to join in unity with the parish of Sacred Heart and St. Benedict, and in cooperation with your pastor, as they gather around the Table of the Lord celebrating the rich Eucharistic Sacrifice, each Sunday, which has been a great fruit of the Council,” Garcia said.
Juventutem International is a grassroots organization of young Catholics founded in 2004. It seeks to promote traditional liturgy, prayer, and community life. Sophomore Nick Cardone is the group’s president at Texas A&M. A convert to Catholicism, he did not mince words in his response to the diocese’s decision.
“At a time when so many young people are leaving the Church, and at the same time countless more are being attracted to the TLM, it is tragic that students who long for reverence and continuity with the past are being discriminated against. The Latin Mass is not a rebellion – it is the Mass of our ancestors, a treasure of the universal Church, and is currently the most productive source of vocations and conversions. To tyrannically restrict our right to it is to close the door on the very future of the Church, and on the impact it has on the world,” he said.
Cardone informed Catholic News Agency (CNA) that the group holds the Latin Mass once a month and that more than 100 A&M students attend the liturgy, which often takes place in students’ homes. Cardone also revealed that he repeatedly reached out to priests in College Station to offer the Mass but that former Bishop Joe Vasquez’s office informed them their requests couldn’t be fulfilled “because of Church law and a vague situation in the diocese.”
The Diocese of Austin issued a statement to CNA as well. Communications Director Camille Garcia said that Cardone’s group did not reach out to incoming Bishop Garcia for his approval, which she said is required for Masses held “outside of a sacred space on the university campus.”
Juventutum said in its press release that it is not discouraged over the news and that it will seek to resolve the matter with Garcia in the future.
‘The group remains fully committed to working with supportive clergy and students to restore reverent liturgy on campus and to defend the right of young Catholics to access the treasures of their own Church. We urge Bishop Daniel Garcia to reconsider this unjust decision and to allow the Traditional Latin Mass to flourish at Texas A&M, for the good of souls and the future of the Church.”
End of first article...
Now the second...
"(LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Michael Martin, OFM, has shared that the new chapel substituting for the previous four traditional Latin Masses of the Diocese of Charlotte is not meant to fit all of those who have attended the TLM.
Martin made the clarification in a Friday letter announcing the diocese’s official merger of its Latin Masses into one chapel, effective October 5. The newly renovated Little Flower Chapel, located 40 minutes north of downtown Charlotte, seats about 350 people, according to Martin.
“Understand that the chapel is not meant to be able to accommodate all who are currently attending the TLM in their respective parishes,” Martin wrote. He encouraged the Latin Mass-goers of the diocese to attend Little Flower Chapel occasionally, and even to wait until later in October or November to go to its Latin Mass, given its limited space.
Martin set off a firestorm of controversy when he announced in May the forthcoming closure of four Latin Masses throughout the diocese, per the dictates of Pope Francis’ Traditionis Custodes, which states that TLMs are not to be celebrated in “parochial” churches.
The backlash was so intense that Martin postponed the planned merger of the Latin Masses from July to October.
The devastation of the planned TLM shutdowns prompted Regina Magazine to produce a documentary, Bread Not Stones, in which Catholics of the Diocese of Charlotte opened up about the TLM’s impact on their lives, and their heartbreak over the suppression of the Latin Mass in their parish churches.
A few men in the film told how the Latin Mass was pivotal for their conversion to the Catholic faith, and one even testified that the TLM helped save his marriage.
One mother, Clare Gephart, highlighted the fact that her TLM parish community is thriving in a way she doesn’t see at other parishes. “Every single Sunday is standing room only. Every single event we attend is packed and full of life … It’s just bursting at the seams with love and life and families and children and elderly people,” Gephart said.
Traditionis Custodes, which has led to the suppression of dozens of Latin Masses around the world, has been denounced by clergy and scholars as a repudiation of the perennial practice of the Catholic Church and even of solemn Church teaching.
Cardinal Raymond Burke has stressed that the Latin Mass was “never juridically abrogated,” and that it is not permissible for a Pope to pretend to wield “absolute power” to “eradicate a liturgical discipline.”
The Latin Mass thus “cannot be changed by a mere act of the will of even the highest ecclesiastical authority,” the cardinal wrote in 2021.
Liturgical scholar Dr. Peter Kwasniewski has also implored priests to resist the Latin Mass-throttling of Traditionis Custodes and its accompanying Responsa ad dubia “regardless of threats or penalties,” because obedience to these documents would undermine the very mission of the holy Catholic Church.
He has quoted the solemn words of St. Pius V’s bull Quo Primum, which permanently authorized the traditional Mass. Quo Primum states:
(I)n virtue of Our Apostolic authority, We grant and concede in perpetuity that, for the chanting or reading of the Mass in any church whatsoever, this Missal is hereafter to be followed absolutely, without any scruple of conscience or fear of incurring any penalty, judgment, or censure, and may freely and lawfully be used. Nor are superiors, administrators, canons, chaplains, and other secular priests, or religious, of whatever title designated, obliged to celebrate the Mass otherwise than as enjoined by Us. We likewise declare and ordain … that this present document cannot be revoked or modified, but remains always valid and retains its full force …
Would anyone, however, presume to commit such an act (i.e., altering Quo Primum), he should know that he will incur the wrath of Almighty God and of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul.
Latin Masses offered by priests of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) are continuing at St. Anthony of Padua in Mount Holly, near Charlotte. The Charlotte Latin Mass community has noted that the Holy See has written multiple times that “the Masses of the SSPX are valid and that the faithful who attend them fulfill their Sunday and Holy Day obligations.”'
End of article number two...
Folks, I have to tell you it seems to me that "bishop" Martin is relishing -- taunting? -- those faithful Catholics who cannot all fit into the little chapel. If that is the case, that is despicable beyond words!
But in both articles, we are dealing with rabid, modernist monsters! We must pray for their defeat -- and for their conversion to the Catholic Faith!
Pray too for strength and honor!
Viva Cristo Rey! Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...
St. Joseph pray for us!!
Gene DeLalla
