Avoiding the Blackpill Temptation
Watching a man say yes to the call of the priesthood is always stirring. It is all the more so in a diocese plagued by uncertainty and in which personal piety and reverence are discouraged or outright sneered at.
On Small Laws
“When you break the big laws, you do not get freedom, you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.” And so we have the continuing melodrama in the Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina.
When a Diocese Undermines Its Own Vocations
Bishop Martin of Charlotte is seeking to impose ‘a year as a layman’ before priestly ordination. This is like an engaged man living an additional year as a bachelor before his wedding day.
Inside the Remaining Charlotte TLM
It was claimed that having the TLM at parishes was divisive. So, paradoxically, faithful Catholics were forcibly divided from their parish communities and sent long distances away, that they may not worship in the same spaces as their neighbors.
Looking Backward in the Diocese of Charlotte
The persecution of tradition is not a new story, but the latest—and probably final—attacks from the Woodstock-era Bishops have a fresh tyrannical twist.
Charlotte’s War on Reverence: A Priesthood Undone
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 Injustice of Restricting the TLM
The severe restrictions of the traditional Latin Mass in Charlotte are not just uncharitable, but also unjust.
