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Traditionalism is an Affirmation

One of the most important things for a person to have is an identity. This is why names are so important to us. Adam was given power to name things in the Garden of Eden, showing that he had dominion over the rest of creation, including Eve, whom he named. When a child finds out that a large, strange-looking animal has a name, he finds comfort in the fact, knowing that, if it has a name, and if Daddy can identify it, the thing must not be all that terrifying. It is known.

Traditional Catholics, or traditionalists, name themselves thus because of their embrace of the traditions of the Church.

by Brother André Marie January 17th, 2012

Brother André Marie to Speak in Louisiana


The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

On Wednesday, February 8, 2012, Brother André Marie will be speaking at Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Lacombe, Louisiana. The title of his talk is “Penance and the Conversion of America.” It will begin at 6:30 PM.

The talk is sponsored by the Mysterium Fidei Latin …


Obama Says Social Policies Motivated by Bible and Teaching of Jesus


Brian Kelly

When most of our foreign aid goes to the militarization of bogus allies and population reduction of African nations through so-called health care, one is again stunned to hear the president ignore these facts and pretend that the purpose of foreign aid is to help feed the poor and the refugees and provide medicines for the sick.


Temporary Fruits of Ecumenical Reflection


Brother André Marie

From the Holy Father’s Address to the Participants of the Plenary Session of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith:
Also the study documents produced by the various ecumenical dialogues have great relevance. Such texts cannot be ignored, because they are an important, though temporary, fruit of the common reflection matured throughout the years. Nevertheless, they are to be recognized


Obama and Administration Wage War Against Pro-Lifers Freedom of Conscience


Brian Kelly

By imperial edict, and as a dark insult to pro-lifers who were preparing their annual march to the Capitol to protest Roe v Wade and the ensuing murders of the pre-born, President Obama and self-deluded “Catholic” Kathleen Sabelius of the Department of Health and Human Services  have given new meaning to the word dictatorial. Genuinely Catholic and pro-life employers have been issued an ultimatum. They have one year to decide if they will serve God or the leviathan state. What boldness! What injustice!


Is There Fight Left in Hungary?


The Philosopher

We hope so. Daniel McAdams exposes the reheated communist apparatchiks and their fellow revolutionary travelers who run the European Union, and who are trying to bring the nation of Saint Stephen to its knees. Now the Hungarians are taking to the streets to insist that their government not be cowed by the threats of a despotic EU leadership.
Are the Hungarians at it again? Fifty-six years ago Hungarians landed what was ultimately the fatal blow to Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.


Multiracial Protest against SPLC ‘Bigots’


The Philosopher

Said one black pastor to homosexual activists: “how dare you compare your wicked, deviant, immoral, self-destructive, anti-human sexual behavior to our beautiful skin color.” What merited such a lambasting? The SPLC’s smearing pro-family organizations as “hate groups” for opposing the homosexual agenda.

Wouldn’t it be good to hear Catholic priests speaking with such conviction?


Agribusiness vs. Agriculture


Brother André Marie

Do you know the difference? If not, I suggest a glance at a blog I’ve just come across: Catholic Land Movement. In reply to our question, there is a posting on that site called “An Authentic Agriculture.” Here is the first paragraph:
Today we refer to what the giant monoculture farmers do as agriculture. This is actually a misnomer. What the vast majority of farmers do today is in actuality agribusiness. This is an important and essential distinction.


Hungary Capitulating?


The Philosopher

This, from RT: “Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has promised to revise the constitution that Europeans say has breached EU rules. The European Commission earlier this week mentioned curbs on the independence of the Hungarian central bank, the early retirement of judges and supervision of the country’s data …


Prayer for Church Unity Is a Prayer For Our Own Conversion and For Non-Catholics To Enter the True Church


Brian Kelly

It’s that simple, as Father Paul Wattson intended it in petitioning Rome to approve the liturgical octave. Pope Saint Pius X approved of the octave in 1908 and Pope Benedict XV promoted its observance throughout the whole Catholic Church. The eight days of prayer begin on January 18, the feast of the Chair of Saint Peter, and end on January 25, the feast of the conversion of Saint Paul. The Holy Father in his general audience yesterday called for “interior conversion” saying that the Unity Octave must not be limited to nothing more than “cordiality and cooperation.”


A Note on NH Pro-Life Victory


Brother André Marie

A little note about the pro-life victory in Saint Benedict Center’s home state. Read the following, from Lifenews.com:
Michael Tierney, an Alliance Defense Fund-allied attorney in Manchester, New Hampshire who helped promote the language, added, “It is time to get New Hampshire taxpayers out of the abortion business. Planned Parenthood’s business model is centered on abortion, and New Hampshire taxpayers want no part in it.”


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+ R.I.P. Brother Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M. + (updated with funeral arrangements)

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by   September 05th, 2009
Catholicism.org

At about 9:00 AM this morning, Saturday, September 5, our beloved Superior, Brother Francis, M.I.C.M., went to his reward.

Brother had received Holy Communion in the morning, and a few hours later quietly slipped away with little warning. His death was very peaceful. We, his religious family, are greatly consoled by the fact that our teacher, guide, and friend died on the First Saturday of the Month, wearing the Brown Scapular to which he was so greatly devoted, with a candle burning before a nearby image of his beloved Saint Thérèse of Lisieux.

We are grateful to all those who prayed for Brother and had Masses offered for him during his final illness.

Brother Francis will be waked at Saint Benedict Center in Richmond, New Hampshire on Wednesday, September 9 from 2-4 PM and 7-9 PM. The funeral will be a sung Requiem Mass in the traditional Latin Rite, offered by the Very Reverend Father Daniel O. Lamothe at Saint Margaret Mary Church in Keene (where the Keene Latin Mass is offered). The Mass will be Thursday, September 10, at 11:00 AM. For a map showing the church’s location, go here. For directions to Saint Benedict Center, go here.

Please read Brother Francis’ Obituary and the Ad Rem, The Funeral of Brother Francis, in Thoughts and Pictures.

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  • ED

    How beautiful of Our Lady to take one of her most devoted slaves to Heaven on First Saturday, the church has lost an intellectual giant today. He recieved the grace of a dying on Saturday due to the fact that thru the years he used the graces given to him to lead others to Christ and his Church.I’m sure Brother Francis is already discussing the Dogma with Our Lord and recieving the rewards he so richly deserved. May eternal rest grant unto him O Lord and may his soul and all the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace!! Brother Francis, Father Feeney Sister Catherine, Brother Hugh and all the deceased Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary….pray for us!

  • John Chabot

    … finally, when my soul shall appear before Thee, and I shall behold for the first time the immortal brightness of Thy majesty, O cast me not away from Thy presence, but vouchsafe to receive me into Thy bosom, there forever to sing Thy praises, and then..

    MERCIFUL JESUS HAVE PITY ON ME! (from a prayer for a happy death)

    Thy tears dear Jesus! Pardon my own!

  • Don Flynn

    My wife and I are adding Brother Francis to the dead whom we commemorate during the Canon at our daily Mass. We also will attempt to gain a plenary indulgence for him, even though he undoubtedly bypassed purgatory, so the prayers and any indulgence gained will be applied to someone else.

    Brother Francis continues to be “in our home” since I continue to replay his recorded presentation of Philosophia Perennis. With every replaying, there is additional fruit. The legacy left by Brother Francis will continue to live for many years.

  • Bonifacius

    It is a privilege for me, and a humbling one, to say that I once was helped in my spiritual progress by a letter Bro. Francis wrote me. I will testify for his cause when it comes up. R.I.P.

  • http://www.youtube.com/osanctissima Josemaria

    I was wondering if the Center will publish any Memoirs he had? Or perhaps a Biography?

    Tempus fugit.

  • Tom

    From the Melkite Greek Byzantine Catholic Trisagion (Prayers for the Deceased):

    May his memory be eternal

    Eonee-ya aftou he mneemi (Greek)

    Le yakon dhikruhu mu-abbadan (Arabic)

  • http://www.streetcornerconservative.com Tom

    My late philosophy professor Dr. Larry Azar was a student of his at Boston and spoke fondly of him. Requiescat in pace.

  • btpcm

    It was my great pleasure to provide for Brother Francis a few years ago a sense of profound appreciation for his work. I managed to see him speaking to others about the moment I finally was able to meet him, after having studied his Philosophia Perennis by audio tape for two years. He did not know I was within earshot. I knew how important it was to him to be appreciated. The story of his practical banishment from the college where he had been a mathematics professor is a powerful testimony of our age of decline in higher education. Can you imagine a school of higher learning turning away his talents? But their loss was our gain! Now my dear daughter, Sister Maria Rosaria, is the recipient of the fruits of his life’s work, for she has the daily privilege of being at the Center with the sisters. May we not hesitate to share our memories of him, for he would be so proud of our appreciation. Good bye, dear friend, may we meet again!!! R.I.P.

    ~btpcm

  • http://catholicism.org John C. Moran

    Thank you, Brother Francis (and Fr. Feeney) for your great defense of the True Faith. I know that you had no layover in Purgatory. Rest in peace.

  • Bob & Bernadette Cohen

    Brother Francis, we thank you for the 30 plus years we were taught by you, worked for you. All these years were so helpful to us and our children. They all knew you and were taught by you. You fought the good fight and now it is time for us to carry on. We will pray for you and hope you will pray for us. Thank you, Brother Francis.
    Bob & Bernadette

  • http://CAMEROON PAUL YEMBE

    Dear Bro. Francis,MICM Adieu!
    Ever since I received your email from ToPrefect on my Admission, I felt a deep sense of gratitude towards you. I also learnt to appreciate the people I am dealing with through the internet, knowing that I am lucky to have them, and this opportunity you have given me..unworthy really I feel I am.
    I know you are in HEAVEN for you departed on the 1st Saturday morning…early in the morning at Lauds. Your Requiem Mass is in Heaven…Please, O Superior intercede for me.Amen

  • Thomas Nelson

    May he rest in peace.

  • http://None Raymond L. Sifdol

    Sorry for your loss.

  • Natalia Dimitrovna

    I have just received the news of the Falling Asleep of Brother Francis. Memory Eternal!

  • http://None Raymond L. Sifdol

    Brother Andre Marie

    I would also like to tell you on this occasion that I apologize for all of my past rude etc. remarks. I was out of order many times, and I appreciate and thank you for your patience. Your site does have many excellent articles and I’m sure I will have much to learn from them in the future. Once again, sorry for the loss of Brother Francis.

  • http://catholicism.org/author/bam Brother André Marie

    Thank you for the kind sentiments, Mr. Sifdol. Your apology is accepted. I’m glad you like to read our articles. God bless you.

  • Dolores Lawless

    Brother Francis was surely one of the great leaders of the holy Church in the 20th century and will be sorely missed.
    God granted him a long life so that he could guide and inspire many of us. We will pray for him and beg his prayers for us until we meet again, hopefully, in Heaven.
    R.I.P.

  • http://Same John Riley

    My condolences to Sr.Bernadette and family and to all the
    members of your community. Brother Francis was a good friend
    of mine and I don’t like losing such a friend. I found out
    about his death after the funeral and I was sorry that I could
    not attend. My wife Emma and I will remember him in our prayers and have Masses said for him. I am thankful that I had
    a chance to know him in this life. May his soul rest in peace.

  • Kurt G. Kuemmerlein

    I am sorry for the loss of Br. Francis. I am disappointed that he is no longer with us. I feel he was a part of the total picture of New England which is now turning to Fall. God’s blessings on you all.

  • http://poorcollegestudent@blog.com Carl Larsen

    After receiving (as I call it) the Holiest of Holy Communions (the final one) that early morning and in a state of Grace; he was granted a peaceful death. He had a holy soul. I could never doubt his entrance into Heaven.

    Although I had never met him, I will still miss him. That is only part of the impact that he had on me.

    Deo Gratias,
    Carl Larsen