SSPX community of St. Anthony's, Mount Holly, North Carolina
Posted on 07/15/2026 11:13:46 AM PDT by ebb tide
SSPX community of St. Anthony's, Mount Holly, North Carolina
“This milestone was achieved as the result of a 3-year search over a 3,000 square-mile search area that included analysis of more than 1,300 properties,” said Jim De Piante, project manager for the new St. Anthony’s church. “We hope this first step in our master plan to build a beautiful and spacious church complex on the property will ensure that the Catholic faithful will have access to their birthright unencumbered in the future.”
De Piante previously told LifeSiteNews their chapel has experienced slow but steady growth since Traditionis Custodes was published. The motu proprio, issued by Pope Francis, states that Traditional Latin Masses (TLMs) are not to be celebrated in “parochial” churches, and Bishop Michael Martin accordingly announced in May that the four remaining TLMs in the Diocese of Charlotte were to be suppressed and merged into one new chapel.
The suppression took effect October 2, when families packed the new diocesan TLM chapel in Mooresville to overflowing, numbering 625 people. However, the chapel, Little Flower, only seats about 350 people. Bishop Martin has admitted it is not meant to fit all the TLM-goers in the diocese, and attendance at Little Flower has since plummeted.
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Meanwhile, attendance at the SSPX Mass at St. Anthony’s has only grown, as numbers shared by De Piante show. By late October and early November, about 100 more people were attending St. Anthony’s than had been in early July. The church is currently built to seat 150 in the nave, causing overflow during Sunday’s sung Mass, when 225 people typically attend. De Piante told LifeSiteNews that a downstairs area with a large video screen seats additional people, and men volunteer to stand during the Mass.
De Piante has shared that over the coming months, the community will make plans to construct the first building of the project, “a multipurpose building that will contain a large chapel, classroom and office spaces, a kitchen, and an outdoor space.” The community is also planning to open the graveyard on the property.
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The suppression took effect October 2, when families packed the new diocesan TLM chapel in Mooresville to overflowing, numbering 625 people. However, the chapel, Little Flower, only seats about 350 people. Bishop Martin has admitted it is not meant to fit all the TLM-goers in the diocese, and attendance at Little Flower has since plummeted.
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.Catholic commentator Robert Royal speculated that such an expansion of TLM permissions would not be enough to convince “committed” attendees of SSPX Masses to move to other Latin Mass communities. He rightly pointed out that the SSPX controversy goes beyond the Mass itself. Before the episcopal consecrations, Pope Leo XIV criticized the SSPX for failing to fully accept portions of the Second Vatican Council.
While Royal lamented that the SSPX has a “stubbornness about what’s happened since Vatican II,” his statement does not do justice to the SSPX’s position on the council. The Society and its founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, have repeatedly and firmly insisted that certain parts of Vatican II texts contradict perennial magisterial Church teaching, and it is this dedication to clarity about perennial Church teaching that poses a stumbling block to the SSPX’s recognition by the Vatican.
For example, the SSPX has highlighted problems with Dignitatis Humanae, which states that “This Vatican Council declares that the human person has a right to religious freedom,” in apparent contradiction to Pope Pius IX’s Quanta Cura and the Syllabus of Errors, which condemns the idea that “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true."
Another document highlighted as problematic by the SSPX is Unitatis Redintegratio, which states that “during ecumenical gatherings, it is allowable, indeed desirable that Catholics should join in prayer with their separated brethren.” This seems to contradict the repeated teaching of the Church, as expressed by, for example, Pope Pius XI in in which he condemned interreligious gatherings and stated, “[T]his Apostolic See has never allowed its subjects to take part in the assemblies of non-Catholics.”
Nostra Aetate also heretically claims that “in Hinduism, men contemplate the divine mystery” and that Buddhism “teaches a way by which men, in a devout and confident spirit, may be able either to acquire the state of perfect liberation, or attain, by their own efforts or through higher help, supreme illumination.”
"Religious Land Use And Institutionalized Persons Act"
This is already destroying communities all across America.
With so many Barbarians already inside the gate, it's not gonna work out the way you think it is.
It needs immediate suspension and review.
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