Archbishop Edward Weisenburger of Detroit has announced that parish churches in the archdiocese offering the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) will be unable to do so after 1 July.
The archbishop – formerly bishop of Tucson, Arizona, before he was named by Pope Francis on 11 February this year as the new archbishop of Detroit – cited the Vatican’s 2023 direction that diocesan bishops do not possess the authority to allow the TLM to be celebrated in an existing parish church.
In an April 16 announcement, the archdiocese said Weisenburger, who was installed as archbishop last month, recently told his priests that he is unable to renew the prior permissions given to parish churches to celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass, reports the Catholic News Agency (CNA). As a result, those permissions will expire at the start of July.
