Archbishop Paul Coakley — Archbishop of Oklahoma City and president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops — told Raymond Arroyo on EWTN’s The World Over: “I’m not sure that we’ve heard the last word from this pontificate on Traditionis Custodes… until Pope Leo has spoken, I’m not sure that we know for sure what the way forward will be.”
Dr. Anthony Stine of Return to Tradition — whose own bishop is Archbishop Coakley — says he’d love for the Archbishop to be right. He doesn’t think he is.
And his reason is the part worth sitting with: Pope Leo doesn’t have to issue a single document about the Traditional Latin Mass. “All he has to do is do nothing at all, and it will continue to wither away.”
We get into what that means for dioceses where the TLM lives or dies on which bishop happens to hold the crozier — Charlotte, Detroit, Covington — and the one counter-example running the other direction: Bishop Michael Sis of San Angelo, who expanded the Traditional Latin Mass at St. Ann’s in Midland beginning August 30.
CHAPTERS
0:00 “I would love for Archbishop Coakley to be correct, but…”
1:03 Background: Pope Leo’s letter to Cardinal Roche
1:32 The clip: Abp. Coakley on The World Over with Raymond Arroyo
2:16 Stine responds — why he believes Leo has already spoken
3:56 “All he has to do is do nothing”
5:29 “Be generous” — and the San Angelo counter-example
6:16 The real problem with leaving the TLM to individual bishops
7:13 Charlotte, Detroit, Covington: when a good bishop is replaced
