BISHOP MARTIN, A BISHOP IN MY PROVINCE OF ATLANTA HAS A VERY GOOD TO EXCELLENT MESSAGE IN HIS VIDEO WHICH WAS SHOWN IN CHARLOTTE’S PARISHES THIS PAST WEEKEND

 Lifesite news calls it a nothing burger. I beg to disagree. It was an excellent message. You can read the Pillar’s commentary here.

I post the actual video below.

The sadness is that what Bishop Martin has done up to this video is to kick evangelization to the side of the road, as well as love for Jesus, as he stives to micro manage the liturgy and even how the altar is decorated, even when in-line with current practices, include papal practices, 

The way he has treated those who desire the TLM is disgraceful as is Traditionis Custodis. 

And kneeling for Holy Communion isn’t the greatest threat to Catholic unity—it is the heterodoxy of those who receive Holy Communion and not in a state of grace and approach the Sacrament in a casual way receiving Holy Communion in their hand in a way not prescribed for those receiving in their hand. Shall we talk about all those who walk off with the Host? Those Hosts found on the floor, in hymnals and missalettes and those taken for satanic purposes? 

Perhaps with his video, the good bishop is trying to reset his pastoral ministry. He’s made a mess of things in his less than first year.

Even the National catholic Reporter had words of warning for the good bishop:

A common piece of advice to Catholic pastors undertaking a new assignment is to wait, go slow, check out the lay of the land and only then implement change.

Bishop Michael Martin of Charlotte, North Carolina, who came to the diocese in May 2024, either didn't get that memo or has ignored it. 

In a little over a year and a half, Martin has:

• Put brakes on the growth of the traditional Latin Mass movement, acting to curtail it in parish life by confining the ritual to a single chapel site in a rural area outside of Charlotte.
• Ordered that diocesan parishes discontinue the use of altar rails to receive Communion and that parishes remove any portable kneelers.
• Urged that Communion be received standing instead of kneeling.
• Mandated another year in priestly formation at the local seminary, which has been known as a traditionalist enclave. Men seeking ordination must now spend a year teaching religion or another subject in diocesan middle or high schools, and living in a nearby rectory.
• Been confronted by a revolt among his younger clergy, who have signed a dubia, a petition to the Vatican, questioning Martin's approach to the traditional Latin Mass and the altar rail edict. About a third of the diocese's active priests signed the petition. A dubia is usually submitted by bishops and is rarely used by diocesan clergy against their bishop.