District Newsletter

On many occasions, in fact in all her apparitions, Our Lady requested that we add penance to our prayers. “Prayer and penance,” she admonished at Rue du Bac (1830), La Salette (1846), Lourdes (1858), Fatima (1917). One after the other, the same message was repeated as a preparation for the enormous Crisis that would shake the world and even the Church...

In a few weeks, following a hopefully restful summer break, the schools of the Society of St. Pius X across the United States will again open their doors to the many children of our faithful, ready to begin a new year of study. I would like, first of all, to thank all the benefactors who help to make this possible. To keep our schools open each year is a financial miracle...

One point on which we can never place enough emphasis, is that the world—especially the Western world—is more and more falling into atheism, materialism, and hedonism. The atheism of the modern world is not exactly the same as that of 20th century Communism...

The crisis in the Church is essentially a crisis of Faith, the novelties and reforms issued by the Second Vatican Council have weakened, and in many cases, even destroyed the Faith. Although it is primarily a crisis of Faith, there are also other effects...

The past few weeks have been full of news concerning the Catholic Church, and specifically the Society of St. Pius X. The first major event and the most important one was, of course, the lifting of the “excommunication” of our four bishops

The past few weeks have been full of news concerning the Society of St. Pius X. You have surely read the letter that Bishop Bernard Fellay wrote to the faithful regarding the lifting of the excommunications by Rome...

One of the things that always strikes me most in visiting our priories, schools and chapels throughout the District, is the numerous young families and the many children—and I can see that there stands the future. It is mainly through educating the youth in a profoundly Catholic manner that we will best work towards restoring everything in Our Lord Jesus Christ...

With the month of January comes the start of a new calendar year and, of course, our best wishes. I would like to wish you a very holy new year. There are many good things one can wish for—success in life and business, world peace, harmony in the family, good health… but definitely, the best and most important thing we ought to wish one another is holiness...

Having returned from Lourdes a few weeks ago, I would like to assure you that the intentions of the priests and faithful of the District of the United States were remembered in my prayers to Our Lady at the grotto. It was a wonderful pilgrimage—the most important gathering of “traditional” Catholics ever brought together...

I wish to thank Fr. John Fullerton for his work as District Superior of the United States of America for the past six years... I receive this new appointment certainly as an honor...