LIST OF SOCIETIES AND ORDERS
WHICH ARE DEVOTED TO THE PROMOTION OF THE
TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS AND APPROVED 
BY LEGITIMATE AUTHORITY [cont'd]

The Society of St. John Cantius was founded in 1998 by Fr. C. Frank Phillips, C.R. as a Roman Catholic religious community of men dedicated to a restoration of the sacred in the context of parish ministry. Its mission is to help Catholics rediscover a profound sense of the sacred through solemn liturgies, devotions, sacred art, sacred music, as well as instruction in Church heritage, catechetics, and Catholic culture. This mission is reflected in the Society's motto: Instaurare Sacrum (Restoration of the Sacred).

On January 31, 2002, , Cardinal George, O.M.I., Archbishop of Chicago, gave his approval to the recently completed Spiritual Directory and Book of Customs as the local provisionary rule for the Society of St. John Cantius—the next step toward approval of constitutions for the Society as a diocesan institute. At that time, clerical members of the Society of St. John Cantius will become the Canons Regular of St. John Cantius and will have full faculties to celebrate the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass according to the Missal of Paul VI (Novus Ordo) in both Latin and English, as well as the Missal of 1962 (Tridentine).