[Don Corleone]

Lamenting the spread of the Traditional Latin Mass to their own diocesan parishes since the Pope issued Summorum Pontificum July 7, 2007

The problem here is that very few priests remain that know how to say a mass in Latin. It is not taught in the seminaries and the older priests are dying off.

[Alberta's Child]

You're absolutely wrong about that.

The new religious orders that are involved exclusively with the Tridentine Mass (the Fraternity of St. Peter, the Institute of Christ the King, etc.) are dominated by young priests -- and their seminaries are filled with young men with priestly vocations.

It's the "Baby Boomer" priests who never learned to say the Mass in Latin . . . and THEY are now the ones who are getting old, retiring, and passing on.

[vladimir998]

It is being increasingly taught in seminaries and there are special sessions offered all over the country to help priests learn the old Mass.

A priest who know no Latin can learn the old Mass in a year with hard work.

[netmilsmom]

>>The problem here is that very few priests remain that know how to say a mass in Latin. It is not taught in the seminaries and the older priests are dying off. <<

My pastor learned in three weeks. Now we have a TLM.

[Heliand]

The Traditional Latin Mass is being taught at St. Charles Borromeo in Philadelphia, and it is the older priests (65-75 years old, thus ordained circa 1959-1969) who are generally most resistant to allowing it in parishes.