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Most Rev. Donald Sanborn
Donald J. Sanborn was born in New York, where he attended Catholic elementary school and high school. In 1967 he entered the seminary college for the Diocese of Brooklyn, where he majored in classical languages and graduated cum laude in 1971. That same year, unhappy with the modernist seminary training he was receiving, he entered…
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Rev. Anthony Cekada
Born in 1951, Anthony Cekada studied at De Sales Preparatory Seminary and St. Francis Seminary College in Milwaukee, graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Theology in 1973. He also studied organ and composition at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music. Already discontent with the Vatican II changes, he entered the Cistercians of the Common Observance, a…
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Most Rev. Daniel Dolan
Daniel Lytle Dolan was born in 1951 in Detroit Michigan. He began his preparation for the priesthood in 1965 at the archdiocesan minor seminary in Detroit. He continued his studies in the Cistercian Order and at the seminary of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) in Écône, Switzerland, where was ordained a priest by…
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Home Alone?
Rev. Anthony Cekada In my recent pamphlet, Canon Law and Common Sense, I mentioned a certain type of person one occasionally encounters in the traditionalist movement: the layman who treats canon law like a handy source for “proof-texts” which he can use to dismiss everyone else as non-Catholic. The practical advice he gives is always…
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Bickering Priests
Most Rev. Donald J. SanbornDisagreements among traditionalist clergy: Causes and cures. Every year of the traditional movement seems to have its “hot topic,” this past year (1993) being no exception. Every year, it seems, the lay people are bombarded by articles, magazines, and pamphlets which try to draw them to a particular side in what…
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Mt. St. Michael & CMRI: Brief Overview
Mt. St. Michael & CMRI: Brief Overview Rev. Anthony Cekada From time to time, I am asked about the background of the Mount St. Michael group (or CMRI), a traditional Catholic organization headquartered in Spokane, Washington. The following is a brief summary of what I have already written on the issue. Origins of the Group…
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Light on the OSJ
Rev. Anthony Cekada History, canon law and the Order of St. John “To call into the active life the religion of love, which will in time replace all existing religions… To spread… great fundamental truths which are the same for all faiths and all nations… To bring about a conscious union of human souls…
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Two Comments on Bp. Tissier’s Recent Interview
Rev. Anthony Cekada Two points in Bp. Bernard Tissier de Mallerais’s interview with Stephen Heiner (The Remnant, 30 April 2006) deserve some further comment. 1. Abp. Lefebvre and the New Rite of Episcopal Consecration. Bp. Tissier emphatically denies that Abp. Lefebvre ever studied, denied, doubted or even discussed the validity of the new rite of…
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Bishop Mendez and the 1990 SSPV Ordinations
Rev. Anthony Cekada Conflicting accounts by participants lead to an unsettling conclusion. In September 1990, the former Bishop of Arecibo, Puerto Rico, the Most Rev. Alfred F. Mendez CSC, ordained to the priesthood two members of the Society of St. Pius V (SSPV). Since Bp. Mendez did not wish to be linked publicly with…
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The Validity of the Thuc Consecrations
Rev. Anthony Cekada During a conversation with Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1980, I hinted about my worries over finding a bishop after his death who would ordain traditional Catholic priests and confirm our children. The archbishop — at that time he hadn’t indicated whether he would one day consecrate bishops — tactfully replied that…