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.



Another Tradition Altered in the Name of Ecumenism

Sydney, May. 29, 2008 (CWNews.com) – World Youth Day organizers in Sydney, Australia, have altered the traditional pattern for the Stations of the Cross in a bow to ecumenical and inter-religious sensibilities, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Instead of the … Continue reading

Catholic Church Grows in Africa, Vocations Grow in Asia

Vatican, May. 27, 2008 (CWNews.com) – A new edition of the statistical yearbook of the Catholic Church shows the Catholic proportion of the world’s population holding steady at 17.3%. The new volume from the Vatican publishing house shows a substantial … Continue reading

Spanish Bishop Urges Parents to Fight Godless Indoctrination of Children in Schools

Education for Citizenship, an immoral Marxist, anti-family, anti-Catholic, course in Spain’s state schools is now declared mandatory for all students.  CNA reports: Madrid, May 22, 2008 / 10:24 am (CNA).- In his most recent pastoral letter Bishop Jose Ignacio Aguirre … Continue reading

Shroud of Turin May Be Retested

May. 21, 2008 (CWNews.com) – An American researcher has convinced Oxford University scientists to reconsider a test that had cast doubts on the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin. After carbon-14 testing on a fragment from the Shroud, an Oxford … Continue reading

Mexican Cardinal Urges Devotion to Cristero Martyrs

Guadalajara, May 20, 2008 / 06:58 pm (CNA).- In preparation for the eighth anniversary of the canonization of the martyrs of Jalisco of the Cristero War, Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez of Guadalajara is encouraging the faithful to participate in the … Continue reading

Catholic Action League Denounces Regis College for Honoring Pro-Abortion Legislator

(May 18, 2008) The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today criticized Regis College, founded by the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph, for conferring an honorary degree upon Massachusetts House Majority Whip Lida Eistenstadt Harkins (D-Needham), a longstanding advocate … Continue reading

Iraqi Court Sentences Killer of Archbishop Rahho to Death

The Daily Telegraph: “A LEADER of al-Qaeda in Iraq has been sentenced to death for the killing of Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho, whose murder in March drew worldwide condemnation.