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Letter to Francis Cardinal Leo from a young male Catholic in Toronto.

Letter to Francis Cardinal Leo from a young male Catholic in Toronto. Name and parish withheld upon request. 

His Eminence, Frank Cardinal Leo, Archbishop of Toronto

Office of the Archbishop, Archdiocese of Toronto

Catholic Pastoral Centre

1155 Yonge St.

Toronto, ON M4T 1W2 

Mississauga, ON A1A 1A1 

September 17, 2026

 Dear Eminence, 

Greetings, Your Eminence, from this poor sheep. I come to you with great love and respect, as a child approaching his father to discuss important matters. 

It has recently come to my attention, as a resident of the Archdiocese who is attached to the usus antiquor, that You will be implementing Traditionis Custodes as of September 20^th, 2026. Over nine years, I have happily attended Mass following the usus antiquor at Carmel Heights, Holy Family, St. Vincent de Paul, and St. Lawrence the Martyr. Thus, it was with deep dismay and concern that I received the news, and it is with the same dismay and concern I write this letter. 

Much of this concern and dismay stems from how cruel this action is, and how it contradicts Your presentation as a kind, compassionate, and receptive shepherd. Upon Your installation in March 2023, I reflected with happiness on Your devotion to the Blessed Virgin. You seemed to embody those traits common to Her and Our Lord Jesus Christ: generosity, magnanimity, and an encompassing concern for Your flock. Such qualities are embodied particularly well in your pastoral messages. One example I regularly ponder is found in Your Message for the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly. There, you write, “Can money, comfortable lifestyle, convenience, material wealth, power, expedient use of resources truly constitutes the “be all and end all” of human existence, the summum bonum for which we must strive? […] Redemptive suffering is regrettably not being preached or taught as it should.” You go on to highlight how requesting MAiD in this mindset is a “sin against God’s love.” Reading this, I was pleased to consider You my bishop. As commissioned by Our Lord Jesus, You were making disciples of all nations and spreading the Gospel. Your words were at once generous, challenged me to offer the pains of life with great love, and displayed an awareness of what we in the pews face on a regular basis. It was gratifying to see, and I noted with pleasure Your demonstrated commitment to visit those smaller, less well-regarded parishes in the Archdiocese. Simply, Your Eminence, Your actions gave further weight to Your words. 

Compounding my happiness at Your commitment to the Gospel was how it has trickled down to my local parish. Before Your installation, Your Eminence, (NAME WITHELD) parish in Mississauga was rather reserved in its practice of the Faith. Today, the Holy Ghost is easily discerned there. An Adoration chapel has been installed which sees regular use. The sanctuary has been enriched with a sobering crucifix, flanked by wonderful statues of St. Joseph and Mary. In the rotunda, proper alcoves have been furnished for Our Lady of Mount Carmel and our patronal saint. Last week, our nave doors were replaced and now depict several Carmelite saints. Every Sunday, the priests offer Mass without fuss, and remind us in their sermons of sin, mercy, justice, the importance of living out of the Gospel, and much more. As a consequence, mindful of their – and Your Eminence’s – practice of generosity, I have begun putting money in the collection plate. As you have noted, money is not the “be all and end all” of my life. The parish is livelier, with more community events than in decades prior. It gives me hope for the future. 

Given such evidence, Your Eminence, I am confused by Your decision to implement Traditionis Custodes to the letter. It goes against everything I have noticed in You. It was enacted without warning. No announcement has been made on the Archdiocesan website. I am unaware of any lay consultation. I had to find out through friends, to my great distress. Where was the kindness? Where was the compassion? Where was the awareness of the trials of life? Since Traditionis Custodes was introduced in 2021, I have witnessed a gradual witling down of the usus antiquor’s offerings here in the Archdiocese. The effects of this have been incalculable. To give just one example, people have been going to other dioceses to hear the Mass of the Ages on Sundays. This is not how it should be. As residents of the Archdiocese of Toronto, we should be able to remain close to home to hear Mass. Pushing us to travel long distances on a Sunday to hear the Mass of my grandparents, at the expense of building the domestic church, is an aberration. It defies history, sense, and charity. To his credit, Your predecessor, His Eminence Emeritus Thomas Cardinal Collins, recognized this, and allowed yours truly to attend the usus antiquor any Sunday I wish. Contrariwise, Your decision to severely restrict the offering of the usus antiquor to certain Sundays, instead of every Sunday, is regrettable.

My confusion is multiplied by the fact Your Eminence has not deemed it necessary to ensure the novus ordo Missae is offered well, with decorum, reverence, and precision. While St. PARISH WITHELD offers acceptable Masses, it could be better. Music is often lacking finesse; I have heard guitars on more than one occasion. When laypeople handle the sacred vessels before and after Mass, they do not wear gloves. Against the late Pope Benedict XVI’s injunction, applause is heard during Mass. These and other actions cause me distress. I have left Mass with tears in my eyes at how Our Lord is treated with such ingratitude and disrespect, heaping, of course, the heaviest charge on myself. That You have not issued a pastoral notice addressing such disregard for His Majesty and His Mother at the Mass most people know, but instead focus on the one attended by a mere one thousand souls, is bewildering. Loathe as I am to say so, conscious of addressing Your Eminence, Your decision to implement Traditionis Custodes is cruel. It betrays the Gospel. I pray and hope it was a hastily considered one, and that it will be swiftly revoked, if not for my sake, but for those of my fellow Christians. 

Until then, I will be withholding my donations. This is done without malice. I still consider myself Your sheep until such time as I am not. In addition to revoking Your implementation of Traditionis Custodes, following Canon 212, I respectfully ask Your Eminence to: (a) allow the usus antiquor to be freely offered throughout the whole Archdiocese, every Sunday; (b) permit the other six sacraments to be freely offered in the usus antiquor; and (c) enforce the novus ordo Missae to be consistently offered with decorum, reverence, and precision, as mandated by the Second Vatican Council. Doing so will shower the Archdiocese with untold graces and restore Your reputation as a kind and compassionate bishop. 

In closing, Your Eminence, it pains me to write this letter in such a direct manner, but I have a duty to You as my father to approach you with my worries, my troubles, and my concerns about Your management of the Archdiocese. Again, it is my hope and prayer that Your decision to implement Traditionis Custodes was hastily considered, and that it will be swiftly retracted. May the Blessed Virgin, whom we dearly love, spread Her Mantle over You and shower You with the many graces You need as Cardinal. 

Kissing the Purple,

I remain,

In the Hearts of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph,

Your sheep,

"Archdiocese of Toronto" blames Rome and Traditionis Custodes - demands "filial devotion and Christian charity!"

In a bulletin released today in the weekly Archdiocesan Update, an "internal newsletter," chancery bureaucrats are running cover for Cardinal Frank Leo's cruel implementation of Traditionis Custodes, with demands that Catholics attending the Vetus Ordo of the Holy Mass fall in line with "patience, humility, filial devotion and Christian charity," as they "seek to preserve ecclesial unity" whilst ignoring all of that themselves. 

They continue that "These changes have become necessary because the archdiocese had not yet fully conformed to the canonical and disciplinary norms set out in the motu proprio Traditionis Custodes and subsequent documents." (Which does seem to throw Thomas Cardinal Collins under the bus). In so doing, they admit that the Archdiocese of Toronto has not been following the utterly repugnant "law" enacted based on lies and deception by Jorge Bergoglio and his frontman, Arthur Roche, pictured here entering a Roman Trattoria with Cardinal Leo in June.  No doubt, this is where the smackdown for the Archdiocese of Toronto and its multi-year-long disobedience of so-called "law" occurred and rather than protest this injustice, Cardinal Leo's "filial devotion" ranked higher than the sheep on the peripheries who have been thrown under a Roman bus without an espresso, let alone a biscotti.

Interesting that nothing appears on the web page of ArchToronto.org, and no letter of comfort to the hurt, betrayed and suffering faithful has been issued with the Cardinal's signature. No comment at all from Frank Leo, the Cardinal, not Frank Leo the real estate sales superstar. Unlike the Archbishop of Moncton in New Brunswick, who wrote kind words to the faithful after establishing the traditional liturgy with the help of the Institute of the Good Shepherd, there are no kind words of comfort to the souls at Holy Family, St. Vincent de Paul in Toronto or St. Lawrence the Martyr in Scarborough, or St. Patrick's in Schomberg. They don't receive the internal newsletter. 

Let me be perfectly clear about "preserving ecclesial unity."

First, this blogger is not breaking unity. The people in those four parishes have not and are not breaking unity. Unity does not mean the same. Unity means we are united in Christ with the Holy Church under the Pope. Popes can err, Francis did, many times. Traditionis Custodes is a cruel document based on lies, hatred for our faith and vengeance. It is the last desperate cry of generation that knows their time is short, "motus in fine velocior!" They must destroy the Old Rite because they know their work has been less than straw.

Secondly, they are hypocrites. They are not "preserving ecclesial unity." They are chasing people to the Society of St. Pius X (to whom I hold great respect). They are failing at "Christian charity" as they have not shown it to the smelly sheep.

It is far beyond time for Pope Leo XIV to act. 

Traditionis Custodes must be abolished!

St. Aloysius Gonzaga Parish of the FSSP in Thorold, Ontario - spectacular chapel renovation!

 

If I really loved Our Blessed Mother, if I were really "Marian" would I...

If I truly loved Our Blessed Mother and genuinely lived as “Marian” as I claim, what would that look like? Would I be generous and kind, a true friend and leader to those entrusted to me? If I were a priest or bishop, how would I treat those under my care? Would I meet them where they are, venture to the peripheries, live humbly among my brothers, and cherish the little flock’s spiritual welfare? Would I embrace even those who prefer the traditional worship of God, respecting their needs and recognizing unity in diversity, or would I harm and disregard them, ignoring their sincere desire to live according to conscience and raise their families in faith? Would I listen to and answer questions with respect, clarity, and charity, or rule harshly and abuse my authority? Would I be driven by ambition for higher positions, sacrificing the vulnerable to impress superiors, strutting like a peacock? The truth of these questions is laid bare before us.

The new Bishop's Palace in the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lawrence Park

One of the first things that struck me when Thomas Cardinal Collins became Archbishop of Toronto in 2007 was his choice of residence. Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter lived in a mansion in leafy Rosedale, a well-known "old-money" 19th-century neighbourhood in Toronto. Aloysius Cardinal Ambrozic opted for a condominium. Neither had chosen to live in the Bishop's Palace, the oldest building in Toronto still in continuous use for its original purpose. Now, it is not much of a "palace," but that is what it is called. It is a beautiful 19th-century Gothic mansion or "rectory" built alongside and attached to the 1848 Cathedral Basilica of St. Michael the Archangel. The more subdued third-storey is a later addition.

To his credit, not only did Collins decide immediately to live there, but he eventually undertook a dignified restoration of the Cathedral and the Bishop's Palace and Rectory. That rectory did not just house His Eminence but also the Cathedral Rector and Associates (I miss the term, curate), and priests who work in the Chancery or hospital chaplaincy. It was a literal priestly community. There were even some nights of the week when the dinner was communal with the Cardinal present. (No comment from me about the stories I've heard.)

Toronto Catholics may be interested in knowing that we have returned to the regal cardinalate of a Prince of the Church. 

Once a year, for the Christmas Carol concert before Midnight Mass, Emmett Carter would process in and then preside from the throne wearing the cappa magna. He thought his congregation should see him in full princely regalia, but Cardinal Collins saw it differently. In 2015, I was the Director of Music and one of the two main organizers of a “Mass in the Presence of a Greater Prelate” on the Vigil of Pentecost, honouring Toronto Monsignor Vincent Foy for 75 years of priesthood. Collins presided over the Mass in the usus antiquior, or Vetus Ordo, from the throne, assisted by four deacons, with all the traditional pomp, the debut of the new Metropolitan Cross, and plenty of “smells and bells.” The only thing we didn’t push on him was the cappa, knowing well by then the treatment a few years earlier of poor Bishop Slattery, even by other bishops at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., for donning it at a pontifical mass.

Curiously, the new Metropolitan Archbishop of Toronto, Frank Leo (that's Frank Leo the Cardinal, not Frank Leo, local real estate magnate), has decided against residing in the place intended for him, opting instead for a grand and stylish mansion in Lawrence Park—at the former home no less, owned by the Chief Financial Officer of the Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation for the Archdiocese of Toronto. Gosh, how much were they paying him? But good on him, eh? It is rumoured to have cost, with renovations, over $7,000,000, or maybe there was a discount from the employee, and not counting whatever lavish renovations followed by a certain amateur architect priest now forced to retire over it. One can’t help but imagine the new Prince of the Church, Frank Leo, sweeping through his opulent halls in a great cape perfectly befitting his majestic new abode. It would just not fit in with the prostitutes, crack-heads, sidewalk defecating homeless, noise, smells and gay-village aspects of Church Street. I mean, what of the "smell of the sheep" or going out to the "peripheries?" Where is the "accompaniment?" 

Naturally, Toronto Catholics wouldn’t dream of begrudging our spiritual leader the privilege of living among the well-heeled in places like Rosedale or Lawrence Park —past and present—like John Tory or world-famous architect Eric Arthur, Group of Seven artist A.J. Casson (I even have a signed print), astronaut Roberta Bondar, athletes like Gary Roberts, and more; enjoying the lap of luxury—at the expense of those in the pews—would we?

Oh, and inquiring minds wish to know: did Frank Leo handle the real estate transaction for Frank Leo?

Lawrence Park, Toronto - Wikipedia

Archdiocese of Toronto suspends Permanent Deacon program

 

Another look back at the betrayal at the Desolate City of the Archdiocese of Toronto and the lost Dialogue of Trust

Just over two years ago, I wrote this exposé, finally prompted to release known information by the putrid and sickening public clarity of an "alleged" sexual assault committed by Thomas Rosica, a now-suspended Basilian priest known to readers of this blog in particular for his slap-suit against this writer. I had had more than enough of this filth. I also decided to write it as a literal service to the new Archbishop of Toronto, Francis Leo. Clearly, he did not appreciate the gift.

I had read The Desolate City by Anne Roche Muggeridge in 1987. It was, along with the Ottawa Oratory in Formation at St. Brigid's, my Catholic rebirth and awakening. In that book, she referred to a scandalous memorandum issued by the then Rector of St. Augustine's Seminary, Brian Clough. After that, they removed him, sent him to the Catholic University of America for Canon Law, and returned him to Toronto to serve as Judicial Vicar until he retired a few years ago. That memorandum, called "A Dialogue of Trust," was lost. Well, it was lost until about five years ago, when I found it online in an archived issue of The Body Politic, a defunct sodomite newspaper in Toronto. I gradually transcribed it and sat on it and other information before finally exposing it.  

My reward was to be told that a Toronto priest was threatened with an end to the Latin Mass because of it. That is how these people act. Rather than respond, they threaten. It is not the first time that this writer was threatened by these churchmen. It has happened before, at least twice. It was serious and blatant, and it is not something I can write about here at this time.  

What this did was prove to me that everything I heard over the years was true and it needed to be exposed. You, the Catholics of Toronto, needed to know this history and to somehow hold these scandalous priests and bishops accountable. I was told by the threatened priest that you had no right to know and that I was creating scandal. I mourn the loss of that relationship. I can only recall the quote attributed to St. Gregory the Great: "It is better that scandal should arise than truth be suppressed." 

I invite you to click on the link below to this story, which will remain in the right column for easy access. It is a long read; it is not pleasant. 

Do not let them win. Hold fast to the Truth of Christ. Do not abandon the Church. Go to the Traditional Latin Mass; insist that the new mass be offered properly with the proper music and the proper disposition and following the rubrics. Show them you won't be abused anymore! 

Vox Cantoris: A look back at The Desolate City of the Archdiocese of Toronto and a lost "Dialogue of Trust"

Vox Cantoris: A look back at The Desolate City of the Archdiocese of Toronto and a lost "Dialogue of Trust"

Frank Leo, the "Metropolitan," not the real estate guy, lunches at Roman Trattoria with Arthur Roche

Well, well, well, what have we here? Check out the man trailing on the left, trailing behind Daddy Roche. Frank Leo, “Metropolitan” Archbishop of Toronto, on his way to enjoy lunch at a Roman trattoria with Art Roche. 

Is this where the plan to go after traditional Latin Mass-loving Catholics in Toronto was cooked up? 

Roche was a close and intimate friend of Doug Crosby, the retired Bishop of Hamilton. When Crosby arrived from Labrador, he brought along a couple of intriguing priests and appointed them as “co-pastors” in Hamilton. What was that all about? Crosby also served as co-consecrator and mentor to Frank Leo. Back in 1987, I was living in Ottawa and attended the “Oratory in formation” at St. Brigid’s, which was dismantled by modernists who aggressively targeted the good priests from St. Joseph’s parish. And the pastor at the time? Doug Crosby. So, what does it all add up to?

Let the reader discern. 

Toronto Catholics at St. Lawrence the Martyr Scarborough, St. Patrick's Schomberg and the Oratory parishes!

Dear Friends,

Some of you know me personally, while most do not. This blog has now reached over 15 million readers, with its influence reaching around the world and even read regularly in the chancery in Toronto. It played a big role in exposing a priest guilty of plagiarism and worse, as well as calling out those who have, for decades, abused children and the faithful of Toronto in many ways. “No Mass for You” (see left column) still hits a nerve! 

Want more? 

My exposé on the horrific abuse at St. Augustine’s Seminary in the 1970s and 1980s, along with its dark secrets (see left for The Desolate City and a Lost Dialogue of Trust), brought threats against both you and me. I was told firsthand by a priest who was warned that the Latin Mass would be persecuted because of me and that post. That was nearly two years ago, and here we are. I don’t buy it. They hate us; they hate the old Mass of our ancestors. They flaunt their “Mariology” and Marian devotion, organize Corpus Christi processions—but do they even believe? I say no, because if they did, they wouldn’t act the way they do or commit such cruelty. Further, they would not hate the old Mass; they would recognize its worth, its beauty, its history and its Truth.

They want a fight? They’ve got one!

Are you ready?

They declared war on you and your children? Are you going to take it?  

Do you think that this is where they will stop? If only our parents and grandparents had this little tool. I do. You do. Use it.

Send an email to me at david.domet@outlook.com

Tell me what this persecution by our Metropolitan Archbishop, Francis Cardinal Leo, over your attendance at the traditional Latin Mass means to you—your anger, your hurt, your disappointment, your fears, your tears, your hopes.

I will publish them here, including your name unless you request otherwise.

I’ll make sure Frank Leo (the cardinal, not the real estate magnate) sees them right here.

Oh, and speaking of real estate.

Stay tuned for tomorrow.

Archdiocese of Toronto implements Traditionis Custodes!

Since late spring, we have known that the Archdiocese of Toronto must implement Traditionis Custodes. Under the instruction of Metropolitan Archbishop Francis Cardinal Leo, the Auxiliary bishops met with Father Russell Asch, chaplain for the traditional liturgy in Scarborough (St. Lawrence the Martyr), Schomberg (St. Patrick’s), and the Toronto Oratory (Holy Family and St. Vincent de Paul), to discuss and set future implementation dates. 

Father Asch was required to act in June. The Toronto Oratory continued discussions and is now implementing the instruction effective Sunday, September 20, 2026. 

Our good friend, Toronto Catholic Witness, was at Mass yesterday at St. Vincent de Paul and filed the following report. 

TORONTO CATHOLIC WITNESS: Rome is suppressing the Latin Mass and Traditional Sacraments in the Archdiocese of Toronto

Let us first take a look at some history. 

The Masses at Schomberg and Scarborough have existed for over 40 years under the late Father Liam Gavigan. He had a personal "celebret" and was authorized by the late Cardinal Aloysius Ambrozic under the indult permitted according to Ecclesia Dei Afflicta of John Paul II. In the early 1990's, the Oratorians were given charge of a second parish, neighbouring  Holy Family, St. Vincent de Paul. A few years later, the Society of St. Pius X purchased a small Baptist church in the next parish from St. Vincent de Paul and opened a Mass Centre. Cardinal Ambrozic approached the Oratorians, who already offered the Novus Ordo sung in Latin at Holy Family, to begin a traditional liturgy at St. Vincent de Paul on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation to draw people away from going to the SSPX. Cardinal Thomas Collins continued and encouraged the growth. 

The late Very Reverend Jonathan Robinson, Cong. Orat., offering Solemn Mass at Holy Family Church

Effective next Sunday, September 20, one Mass per month scheduled in the usus antiquior must be said according to the Novus Ordo. At St. Vincent, the old high altar will be used, as it is now, and at Holy Family it must face the people. The Mass at St. Vincent will be simply read, along with the earlier one. At Holy Family, it will be sung in Latin, facing the people, with music according to the new rite, as they did there from arriving in Toronto until changing it to the traditional and evolving to Solemn weekly. 

No other sacraments are permitted according to the traditional usage. 

All four parishes have sufficient English-language Masses, and at St. Lawrence the Martyr, Italian Masses according to the new rite. There is no demand to remove these from Latin Mass-goers, and no demand from others to remove the Latin Mass. People are free to choose. 

A rough calculation of numbers is revealing. At these four Masses and the Society of St. Pius X masses at two locations, there are not more than 1,200 people attending, and that is a generous estimate; it may be less than 1,000. 

Let the reader discern.