Why They Are Taking Away Your Traditional Latin Mass [CATHOLIC CAUCUS]

https://www.traditionsanity.com/ ^ | November 20, 2025 | Dr. Peter Kwasniewski

[NKP_Vet]

The past week has been buzzing with rumors to the effect that Leo XIV has instructed the Dicastery for Divine Worship to issue “extensions” on the TLM whenever bishops ask for them. In this way, as Kevin Tierney explains, he has begun the practical repeal of Traditionis Custodes, however long its actual replacement with a better policy will take.

And yet… even if the rumor is true (the nuncio to Great Britain has affirmed it with a classic non-denial), it still means that the fate of the TLM is left entirely to the local bishop; legally the situation remains worse than it did under John Paul II’s 1988 indult. Nothing prevents anti-TLM bishops from continuing to shut it down, as we have seen most recently in Detroit, Charlotte, and Knoxville (to name only the most notorious). Worst of all, the vicious lies and theological errors underlying Traditionis Custodes—a document whose claims entail what a French author refers to as “latent schism”—remain official and operative.

Which brings me to the point of this post.

Very often people will ask, as I myself asked for years: “Why in the world would the Church’s leaders persecute some of the most faithful Catholics—those who form the TLM communities?”

[chopperk]

The change allows the homo progressives to change Christ’s Teachings to fit their lifestyles.

[Red Badger]

Because nobody speaks Latin?.....Just a guess.............

[exPBRrat]

The devil hates Latin...

[faucetman]

Because it is “speaking in tongues”. That’s why.

[Campion]

It's a known language. The priest is reading it from a book. You can learn the language from another book. Every half-decent college in the country has a department devoted to teaching and reading both Latin and Greek. Latin is even still taught in high schools occasionally.

How is that "speaking in tongues"?

This is a Catholic Caucus thread. Are you a practicing Catholic?

[Bigg Red]

Prayers up for Holy Mother Church.