Traditional Latin Mass lacks approval at Texas A&M University

CNA Staff, Sep 26, 2025 / 13:36 pm

The Diocese of Austin said Catholic students in College Station, Texas, did not secure required permissions to hold a Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) on the campus and did not permit it to proceed.

Texas A&M sophomore Nick Cardone, president of the local chapter of a group known as Juventutem International , said in a press release Sept. 24 that a priest from the Diocese of Victoria, Texas, was scheduled to say the Mass for members of the group in a reserved room in an on-campus conference center. The priest called the night before the Mass was scheduled, however, saying the chancellor of the Austin Diocese sent him a directive “expressly forbidding him from traveling to College Station.”

Church law requires permission from the host diocese for a vis