When Success Becomes a Problem: Summorum Pontificum in Canada

After a Vatican questionnaire about the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) emerged, VoxCantor.Blogspot.com (April 27) shared the situation in Toronto and the three surrounding dioceses: Hamilton, London and St. Catharines.

In these four dioceses, about thirty diocesan priests offer the TLM. Many of them are newly ordained and young.

• Toronto: There are five TLM every Sunday, and at least three other parishes offer weekday TLM.

• Hamilton: There are two regular places and a third occasional one.

• London: There are two growing communities.

• St Catharines: There is a Fraternity of Saint Peter church, and a sprinkling of ad hoc diocesan TLM.

Additionally, there are at least four PiusX chapels in Toronto, New Hamburg, Orillia and St Catharines.