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Brian Kelly

About Brian Kelly

Brian Kelly has been the editor-in-chief of From the Housetops magazine and Saint Benedict Center’s monthly Mancipia newsletter since January 2006. He writes the “Kelly Forum” for the latter monogram. Brian was born in 1952 in West Orange, New Jersey. He received his primary education there from the Sisters of Charity at Our Lady of Lourdes school. He graduated in 1970 from the Irish Christian Brother’s Essex Catholic High School in Newark. He spent one year at Kilgore Jr. College in Texas, transferring to Saddleback Jr. College in Mission Viejo, California, in 1972. Prompted by his valiant mother’s insistence, he first visited Saint Benedict Center in Still River, Massachusetts, in the summer of 1973, where he met Father Feeney and the philosopher who was to be his mentor ever since, Brother Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M. Brian spent that two-semester year in Rome studying philosophy at the Pontifical University of the Angelicum. With years of experience in teaching catechetics, including a full course on the Gospels of St. Mark and St. Matthew given to interested adults, Mr. Kelly has been a student/teacher of the Faith for most of his adult life. Having studied theology, New Testament Greek and Latin, and philosophy under the tutelage of Brother Francis, Brian was able to edit many books, including: Father Feeney and the Truth About Salvation by Brother Robert Mary, M.I.C.M., Tert., Brother Francis’ two philosophy books, Introduction to Philosophy (for which he also compiled the Glossary) and Cosmology. He has also edited Brother’s Logic, which has not yet been published. These latter projects were performed around the time that he was editor-in-chief of Loreto Publications (1999-2005). Over the years, Mr. Kelly has spoken many times at the Saint Joseph Forum in Indiana and at two of the Saint Benedict Center Conferences. He has also contributed and will be contributing articles for From the Housetops.

Boy Scouts USA Lifts Ban on Openly Homosexual Members

CNA: The Boy Scouts of America has voted in favor of a resolution that lifts the ban on openly gay members but will not allow gay adult troop leaders. More on this here.

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No Public ‘Gay Pride’ Debauchery Allowed in Ukraine

Yahoo News: A Kiev court on Thursday banned what would have been Ukraine’s first gay pride event after city authorities raised security concerns. There is little public acceptance of homosexuality in predominantly Orthodox Ukraine, as in other former Soviet republics; last week, large crowds of protesters broke up gay rights rallies in Georgia and Russia. More here.

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Tornado Survivors Find Cross on Top of Their Closet of Refuge

IOL News: “We prayed. I could feel pressure, and being sucked. I put my body over them to try to protect them,” Williams said. The roof and upper storey of the house had collapsed into and around the closet, but neighbours dug them out. Williams and her children suffered only minor injuries. A large wooden cross that had been hanging on an upstairs wall was … More →

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Dreadful Misleading Headline of Catholic Online Pins Heresy on Pope

Here’s the headline: Pope Francis says atheists can do good and go to heaven too! “Go to heaven, too?” Yes, but not as an atheist! Pope Francis did not say that an atheist who does naturally good things can be saved if he dies an atheist. Yet that is the impression given by Catholic Online’s half truth headline. This is like taking Saint Paul teaching … More →

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China: Government Tightens Grip on Election and Ordination of Bishops

AsiaNews: Church observers in China have reacted strongly to a revision of the regulations surrounding the election of bishops, which they say grants the government-backed Bishops’ Conference of the Catholic Church in China (BCCCC) overarching control. More on this here.

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China: Police Beat Farmer Almost to Death for Having Three Children

AsiaNews: More than twenty officers, from the family planning bureau have brutally beaten a man Wednesday, May 15 in the vicinity of Xiny. China Aid reports that the only reason that Zhang Futao, a farmer from Jiangsu Province, was attacked was because he is the father of three children, 12, 6 and 4 years of age. More on this here.

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Pope Asks Universal Church to Pray for China May 24th

AsiaNews: Pope Francis has invited “all Catholics in the world” to join Chinese believers in prayer on May 24, to Our Lady of Sheshan, “I urge all Catholics around the world to join in prayer with our brothers and sisters who are in China, to implore from God the grace to proclaim with humility and joy Christ, who died and rose again; to be faithful to … More →

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Pro-Life Nominees Win at Virginia GOP Convention

Catholic Online: ”Planned Parenthood has been far more lethal to black lives than the KKK ever was!” Those are the words from the outspoken and charismatic E.W. Jackson, an African-American pastor and attorney from Chesapeake, Virginia. Jackson, the Virginia GOP nominee for lieutenant governor, made these comments at the Republican Party of Virginia Convention this past weekend. Jackson is taking some within the black community to … More →

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Obama’s Month for ‘Gay Pride’ Imposed on US Embassies

The following incisive article by Robert Reilly says it all about the anti-culture imperialism of the globalists’ leading enforcer of self-destruction. We are obliged to know the enemy’s ugly, cruel face if we are to engage him strategically in the arena as militant Catholics. As far as the activist perverts go and the oligarchic hegemony promoting their filthy “conduct,”I haven’t read a better analysis that … More →

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Pope Makes 4th Appeal for Prayers for Tornado Victims

CNA: As he hosted his weekly Wednesday audience in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis made his fourth appeal for prayer for the victims of the tornado that killed 24 people in Oklahoma. Read more here.

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Distraught Old Soldier Commits Suicide in Notre Dame Cathedral

Edwards Peter: Suicide—whatever mental/emotional problems induce some to commit it and which might even mitigate its culpability—is objectively a gravely evil action (CCC 2280-2283) and may never be licitly chosen. When committed in a sacred place such as a church or shrine, suicide effects the “violation” of that space and divine worship (as opposed to personal prayers) may not be offered there until the place … More →

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Medjugorje Getting Better. Some Claim Vicka Heals and Bilocates.

Medjugorje Today: visionary Vicka Ivankovic-Mijatovic has been seen in the homes of several people, even though it is known that she was elsewhere when the sightings occured. Vicka confirms that people have told her of healings through her visits, but says she does not know what happens. (So the website claims). More here.

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Join Pope Francis in Praying for Victims of Devastating Tornado

OSV Daily Take Blog: AN EF-4 tornado (on the five-point Fujita scale) ripped through Moore, Okla., with winds up to 200 mph and a width of at least half-a-mile, reportsCBS News. At least 51 people were killed, and the death toll is expected to rise. Among those are at least 20 children, and 50 of the 236 injured were also children. Read more here. Correction update: … More →

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‘No More ‘Francis,’ Only ‘Jesus,’ Alright?’

CNA: The Holy Father wants to join in with the accolades of the faithful, but he can’t when they are shouting “Francis.” Read more here.

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Vermont Legalizes Assisted Suicide

LifeNews: With Governor Peter Shumlin’s signature on a bill the state legislature approved, Vermont today becomes the third state after Oregon and Washington to legalize assisted suicide. More on this here.

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