Archdiocese of Detroit Announces its Parishes Can No Longer Offer Traditional Latin Mass but 4 Non-Parishes will Continue

The Archdiocese of Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A., made an April 16 announcement, concerning the reduction of the Traditional Latin Mass in the Archdiocese. The newly appointed Archbishop Edward Weisenburger, installed as archbishop in March, explained that he is unable to renew the prior permissions granted to parish churches to celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass, which will expire on July 1.
His directives reflect the Holy See’s Traditiones Custodes, the Archdiocese of Detroit announced April 16. Its parish churches are no longer permitted to celebrate the traditional Latin Mass; however, the archbishop is working to find alternative local locations for it to be celebrated.
The St. Joseph Shrine run by the Institute of Christ the King will be able to continue, however, and the archbishop intends to identify at least four non-parish locations in the archdiocese where the Traditional Mass can be celebrated.
The archdiocese explained in the announcement that in 2021, the archdiocese sought to allow its parishioners to attend the traditional Latin Mass while following the norms promulgated by Traditiones Custodes.

FULL TEXT Update on Traditionis custodes in the Archdiocese of Detroit

In the years following the promulgation of Traditionis custodes in July 2021, the Archdiocese of Detroit sought to establish a pathway for the Mass celebrated according to the 1962 Missale Romanum — commonly referred to as the Traditional Latin Mass. The goal was to make use of this Extraordinary form of the Liturgy while ensuring that the Archdiocese remained in conformity with the directives of the Holy See. Recently, Archbishop Edward Weisenburger shared the following updates to this effort in a meeting with the priests of the Archdiocese: 

*The Holy See has reserved for itself the ability to allow the Traditional Latin Mass to be celebrated in parish churches. Local bishops no longer possess the ability to permit this particular liturgy in a parish church. With this in mind, the prior permissions to celebrate this liturgy in Archdiocesan parish churches—which expire on July 1, 2025—cannot be renewed. 

*The ministry of St. Joseph Shrine in Detroit, functioning specifically to care for Christ’s faithful who desire to participate in the Traditional Latin Mass, will continue. Since 2016, this community has been under the care of the canons of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest, a society of apostolic life with a special focus on celebration of the Mass according to the 1962 Missale Romanum. 

* In addition to the exception referenced above, the Traditional Latin Mass may be permitted by the local bishop to be celebrated in non-parish settings (typically chapels, shrines, etc.). It is the Archbishop’s intention to identify a non-parish setting where the Traditional Latin Mass may be celebrated in each of the Archdiocese’s four regions. As noted above, and in accordance with recent decisions by the Vatican’s Dicastery for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, these locations will not be parish churches. Once these locations are determined, they will be shared with the faithful.

Archbishop Weisenburger plans to continue discernment and consultation on this matter during the next several months.