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—EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW— Bishop Bernard Fellay on the Rosary Crusade and Doctrinal Talks Nearly 20,000,000 Rosaries offered to Holy Father from Traditional Catholics Worldwide! By Brian Mershon REMNANT COLUMNIST, South Carolina (Posted 05/11/10 www.RemnantNewspaper.com) Bishop Bernard Fellay, SSPX, greets the Holy Father Houston, Texas—Superior General Bishop Bernard Fellay of the Society of St. Pius X recently spoke to The Remnant in an exclusive interview following the completion of their third Rosary crusade for the Holy Father on March 25, 2010. Despite Cardinal Kasper’s most recent obvious attempt to “poison the well” and upend the ongoing discussions with the Society’s theologians and...

An Interview with Bishop Fellay -SSPX Superior General Expects Clarifying Theological Discussions -Says Even Some Cardinals See "Devil at Work" in Recent Media Firestorm Brian Mershon REMNANT COLUMNIST, South Carolina -Exclusive to The Remnant- (Posted 2/18/09 www.RemnantNewspaper.com) In this exclusive interview for The Remnant since the lifting of the excommunications of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), General Superior Bishop Bernard Fellay emphasizes that the path forward would be determined by what he expects to be extensive but, hopefully fruitful, theological discussions on the documents of the Second Vatican Council. In addition to the SSPX’s desire to have more...

An Interview with Bishop Fellay -SSPX Superior General Expects Clarifying Theological Discussions -Says Even Some Cardinals See "Devil at Work" in Recent Media Firestorm Brian Mershon REMNANT COLUMNIST, South Carolina -Exclusive to The Remnant- (Posted 2/18/09 www.RemnantNewspaper.com) In this exclusive interview for The Remnant since the lifting of the excommunications of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), General Superior Bishop Bernard Fellay emphasizes that the path forward would be determined by what he expects to be extensive but, hopefully fruitful, theological discussions on the documents of the Second Vatican Council. In addition to the SSPX’s desire to have more...

A Bad Year for the Neocons Who is more Catholic than the Pope? Brian Mershon REMNANT COLUMNIST, North Carolina By all accounts, 2009 has been a challenging year for Neocon Catholics. Lamenting the spread of the Traditional Latin Mass to their own diocesan parishes since the Pope issued Summorum Pontificum July 7, 2007, the recent revelations concerning the founder of the Legion of Christ, Father Marcial Maciel, the death of Father Richard John Neuhaus, and now the dissolving of the excommunications of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), the Neocon Catholic worldview is clearly being undermined George Weigel’s recent...

Scandal in Baltimore Pro-Life Catholics Arrested at Baltimore Basilica Brian Mershon REMNANT COLUMNIST Basilica of the Assumption Editor’s Note: After this week's scandal in Baltimore involving Catholic pro-lifers being arrested for passing out pro-life literature at the Basilica of the Assumption, Remnant columnist Brian Mershon questioned the parties involved, including Operation Rescue’s Randall Terry as well as a spokesman for the Archdiocese of Baltimore. MJM Sunday, Sept. 15, 2008, Exaltation of the Holy Cross—Two pro-life Catholics were arrested Sunday following 9 a.m. Mass at the Basilica of the Assumption in Baltimore, MD, after being asked to leave church property by...

SSPX in schism? You can believe Fr. Newman... or you can believe the Church South Carolina pastor warns flock SSPX attendance "morally illicit" and "gravely sinful" Brian Mershon Brian Mershon August 7, 2007 Greenville, South Carolina — Noted author and commentator George Weigel's book Letters to a Young Catholic highlights St. Mary's parish, under the direction of Fr. Jay Scott Newman, JCL, as a particularly bright beacon in the continuing wasteland of the post-Vatican II devastation. St. Mary's is a steadily growing parish with lots of young families, and many who are open to life and attempting to lead holy,...

SSPX in schism? You can believe Fr. Newman... or you can believe the Church South Carolina pastor warns flock SSPX attendance "morally illicit" and "gravely sinful" Brian Mershon Brian Mershon August 7, 2007 Greenville, South Carolina — Noted author and commentator George Weigel's book Letters to a Young Catholic highlights St. Mary's parish, under the direction of Fr. Jay Scott Newman, JCL, as a particularly bright beacon in the continuing wasteland of the post-Vatican II devastation. St. Mary's is a steadily growing parish with lots of young families, and many who are open to life and attempting to lead holy,...

Chaos erupts at Ave Maria University after Fr. Fessio firing McCaffrey: Traditionalist Catholics need not apply Brian Mershon Brian Mershon April 3, 2007 Father Joseph Fessio, S.J., Publisher of Ignatius Press, and former Provost of Ave Maria University, was unexpectedly and suddenly dismissed from his position around 2 p.m., Wednesday, March 21, 2007, without detailed explanation from the University administration. The next day, without explanation, the University did an apparent "about face" by outlining a list of responsibilities that appeared to keep Fr. Fessio actively involved in the University. In an upcoming series of articles, we will explore many facets...

Someone is lying ... but is it the 100 alleged abuse victims or Fr. Maciel? Brian Mershon Brian Mershon August 7, 2006 From the August 10 edition of The Wanderer Since the official May 19 statement from the Holy See suspending Fr. Marcial Maciel, founder of the Legion of Christ, from all public ministry, more information has become available to shed light on the case from additional sources. The following letter and interview, a new charge of sexual abuse against Fr. Maciel, is an exclusive to The Wanderer. Francisco Gonzalez-Parga, a former priest and seminarian with the Legionaries of Christ...

Bishop Fernando Rifan says traditionalists must show perfect communion with Pope, tradition Brian Mershon Brian Mershon June 20, 2006 (From the June 22 edition of The Wanderer) The great expectations of a pending "freeing of the Classical Roman rite of liturgy" have dissipated like April showers. It is now in the heat of summer, and a well-respected consultant to the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith was interviewed by the Mexican newspaper, Milenio, where he mentioned the possibility of a document freeing the Classical rite may be promulgated in October, a post-synodal apostolic exhortation, following the October 2005 synod on...

Interview With Fr. Gabet, Msgr. Schmitz… Latin Liturgical Tradition Leads Faithful To Holiness By BRIAN MERSHON Published in the March 30 edition of The Wanderer Phone: (651) 224-5733 This article is the second of a three-part series based upon interviews with Msgr. Michael Schmitz, who heads up the Institute of Christ the King, Sovereign Priest (ICKSP) in the U.S., and Fr. George Gabet, the North American General Superior for the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP). Both priests reveal the phenomenal growth they are experiencing in Traditional Latin Mass communities, both in terms of numbers of families, as well as...

We're in the middle of the disintegration of the Latin rite" — Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz. Bishop Fernando Rifan of the Apostolic Administration of St. John Marie Vianney, Campos, Brazil, said there were four U.S. bishops who allowed their diocesan priests full approval to offer the Classical Roman rite of Mass while delivering the keynote address for an Una Voce America Conference held November 18-20 in Providence, R.I. His words of encouragement to U.S. traditional Catholics at the conference, coupled with those of Msgr. Michael Schmitz, U.S. provincial superior, Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest, made it clear that the...

Ecumenism gone awry "Conservative" bishop OK with attending heretical worship services, while another warns against attending valid Latin Masses Brian Mershon Brian Mershon October 27, 2005 Remember Bishop Michael Sheridan of the diocese of Colorado Springs? Back prior to the 2004 presidential election, many Catholics hailed him for his defense of the Holy Eucharist by publicly stating he would forbid Holy Communion to pro-abortion "Catholic" politicians, elected officials and judges. But in this age of false ecumenism and religious indifferentism, warned against repeatedly by Pope Pius XII, Pope Pius XI (especially in the authoritative encyclical, Mortalium Animos) Pope Benedict XV...

Tridentine Mass not a Priority By Brian Mershon MichNews.com Oct 17, 2005 As the week wraps up, Catholics received a flurry of headlines from the Synod on the Eucharist in Rome. Also, toward the end of this week, Archbishop Chaput of Denver commented on the results of the Second Vatican Council being "mixed" to date. And finally, Cardinal Arinze mentioned in a news conference that the Traditional Latin Mass had not been mentioned by any of the Synod Fathers because it was "not a priority" for the Synod. He then went on to add the following amazing statement: "The problem...

Guest Commentary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abusing God's Children: Part II By Thomas Augustine MichNews.com Sep 19, 2005 Part I: Click Here Who are the Consultants behind VIRTUS’s “Touching Safety Curriculum? Ties to the Culture of Death For us too Moses' invitation rings out loud and clear: "See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil. ... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live" (Dt 30:15, 19). This invitation is very appropriate for us who are called day by day to the duty of...

Abusing God’s Children By Brian Mershon MichNews.com Sep 14, 2005 In this regard, we recall what the Holy Father teaches in Familiaris consortio: "The Church is firmly opposed to an often widespread form of imparting sex information dissociated from moral principles. That would merely be an introduction to the experience of pleasure and a stimulus leading to the loss of serenity -- while still in the years of innocence -- by opening the way to vice". Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality, Pontifical Council for the Family Guidelines for Education Within the Family (November 21, 1995) Penis. Vagina. Buttocks. Anus....

A FEW THOUGHTS for AUGUST, 2005 By Bishop Richard Williamson In this year’s May-June issue of the French bi-monthly magazine “Sous la Bannière”, on page 7, there is a most interesting quotation attributed to Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI. It reads as follows: “A source in Austria, preferring to remain anonymous, assures us that Cardinal Ratzinger recently made the following admission to an Austrian bishop who is a friend of his: ‘I have two problems on my conscience: Archbishop Lefebvre and Fatima. As to the latter, my hand was forced. As to the former, I failed’.” Of course if...

August 2005 "The State of Tradition" in the United States Earlier this year, Una Voce Columbus conducted interviews with a series of leaders in the traditional Mass movement across the USA. These leaders are active every day in the promotion and preservation of Catholic Tradition and have experienced the trials and glories of a return to that Tradition. These interviews were used for an article in Mass of the Ages, the magazine of the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales. With permission of LMS and certain interviewees, we republish the full interviews here for our web visitors. Interview with...

Dear Friends in Christ, In the late 1960's and early 70's, several changes in the celebration of the sacred liturgy took place at roughly the same time: the promulgation of the Roman Missal of 1970 which superceded the Order of Mass put into place in 1570 after the Council of Trent (and is usually called the Tridentine Mass); permission to celebrate Mass in languages other than Latin; beginning to use new forms of music in the liturgy; and the introduction of the custom of the priest celebrating Mass facing the people rather than facing God with the people. And because...

The Legionaries of Christ: Fr. Maciel's Trial Draws Nearer The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has begun a preliminary investigation and has interviewed dozens of new witnesses – who have filled pages with new accusations by Sandro Magister ROMA, May 20, 2005 – Last April 2, just as John Paul II was dying in Rome, in New York the promoter of justice for the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Charles J. Scicluna, from Malta, was interviewing Paul Lennon, the former headmaster of a "School of Faith" run by the Legionaries of Christ. Mr. Lennon, who...