Thomas Anthony Daly
Thomas Anthony Daly was born on April 30, 1960, in San Francisco and grew up in a large Catholic family there, attending Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory. He took a bachelor's degree at the University of San Francisco in 1982, a Master of Divinity at St. Patrick's Seminary in Menlo Park in 1987, and a Master of Education at Boston College in 1996. Ordained a priest for San Francisco in 1987, he spent his ministry largely in classrooms and vocations work.
He served as parochial vicar at Our Lady of Loretto Parish, as teacher and campus minister at Marin Catholic High School, as part-time chaplain to the San Francisco Police Department, and at St. Cecilia's Parish. Archbishop William Levada named him archdiocesan vocations director in 2002 and president of Marin Catholic in 2003. Named the first auxiliary bishop of San Jose on March 16, 2011, he was ordained a bishop on May 25, 2011, and in 2013 became interim president and rector of St. Patrick's Seminary, its first non-Sulpician rector.
Pope Francis named him the seventh Bishop of Spokane on March 12, 2015, and he was installed on May 20, 2015, at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes, taking up residence at Bishop White Seminary beside Gonzaga University. His Spokane years have emphasized priestly formation - the diocese has seen rapid growth in its seminarians - Catholic education, and plain-spoken teaching on the Eucharist and the sanctity of life; he has chaired the U.S. bishops' Committee on Catholic Education.
No Traditional Latin Mass under diocesan authority, and no decree, statement, permission, or restriction by Bishop Daly, has been found in the sources consulted across his tenure since 2015; the CNA survey of diocesan responses in July 2021 lists Spokane as N/A. The check ran in both directions, as his long and public tenure required: neither an act fostering the old Mass nor an act against it appears.
Spokane's conspicuous old-Mass venues - Mount St. Michael and Our Lady of Guadalupe - are served by the CMRI, a sedevacantist congregation not in communion with the diocese; they are not diocesan sites. A Spokane religious community, the Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Church, appears on an older list of communities using the Tridentine Mass; their current practice and the form used could not be verified, and no public parish apostolate is documented, so nothing is counted. His posture is no_record, plainly.