In June 2021, Catholics woke up to the news that the Vatican had decided to begin persecuting young people across the world who attend the Traditional Latin Mass.
The widely despised document Traditiones Custodes was written in a spirit of spite, but that spite has only served to consume those who promoted it rather than those who were restricted by it.
Europe’s most important annual Catholic event for young people, the Chartres Pilgrimage, has become so popular that for the first time ever, registration had to be closed.
The walk sees pilgrims leave Paris to walk for 3 days, arriving at Notre Dame de Chartres on Pentecost Sunday.
16,000 people, a significant portion of them under the age of 20, are attending this year’s event, with thousands more attending the SSPX event that takes place in the opposite direction.
The event and its success would make a proper listening church stand up and talk note, but as we know, in these Synodal times, only those who speak what the church establishment wants to hear will be afforded the right to be heard.
