This is a guest post written by my good friend Jesse Romero. With his permission, I reproduce it from his own site. I crosspost it because his move from charismatic to traditional was very much like my own, with both of our own parents having been involved in the Catholic charismatic movement.  As always, Jesse's writing here is both clear and profound.  Make sure to see my recent interview on his show starting at minute 21 here about a recent adventure in my life. The Toronto blessing started in 1994, it was something that swept Protestant pentecostalism by storm for several years and it made its way into the Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR). The truth be told, the Catholic Charismatic Renewal is a poor imitation of protestant Pentecostalism, they do it better. I was introduced to the CCR by my parents. [...]

This month of July 2025, Miss Diane Montagna, an American journalist based in Rome, released an article here titled "Official Vatican Report Exposes Major Cracks in Foundation of Traditiones Custodes (TC.)"  She writes: "The previously undisclosed text, which forms a crucial part of the official report by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on its 2020 consultation of bishops concerning Summorum Pontificum, reveals that 'the majority of bishops who responded to the questionnaire stated that making legislative changes to Summorum Pontificum would cause more harm than good.'" But only 30% of the bishops had even responded in that 2020 questionnaire.  Miss Montagna asserts that a new report states "that Summorum Pontificum played 'a significant, albeit relatively modest, role in the life of the Church.'  By 2021, 'it had spread to around 20% of the Latin [Western] dioceses worldwide, [...]