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.



Vatican paper lauds film on Katyn massacre

Rome, Mar. 19, 2008 (CWNews.com) – The official Vatican newspaper has offered high praise for a film on the Katyn massacre. The Oscar-nominated film, entitled simply Katyn, is a story based on the historical realities of 1940, when Soviet troops … Continue reading

Vatican to Offer Conciliatory Note to Jews?

Or, so says Reuters News Service. They have it that the Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, is going to author the note. Here’s the article by Reuters.

Revisiting Tolkien

This 2003 interview of the Vatican News Agency, Zenit, with author/historian, Bradley Birzer, is worth a read for fans of the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. Read.

Mob of Hindu radicals attacks nuns, teenage girls

Mumbai, Mar 18, 2008 / 05:14 am (CNA).- A Hindu radical group on Saturday attacked two Catholic nuns and three teenage girls in a western Indian village as they prepared to hold a women’s educational program, UCA News reports. Sister … Continue reading

Catechumens Overcome Difficulties On Their Road To Baptism

CAMBODIA – PHNOM PENH (UCAN) — Catechumens in Cambodia commonly face challenges including family rejection, community ostracism and government unease.UCA News spoke with catechumens of St. Joseph Parish in Phsar Thoich, Phnom Penh, recently about their journey into the Church. … Continue reading

Archbishop Terrence Prendergast on Denying Pro-Abort Politicians Holy Communion

Exclusive Interview: Ottawa Archbishop Explains Why Pro-Abortion Politicians are Denied Communion By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, March 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The mainstream media has picked up on comments by Ottawa Archbishop Terrence Prendergast regarding reception of Holy Communion for pro-abortion … Continue reading

Pope to Offer Mass for Murdered Bishop Faraj

(AGI) – Vatican City, mar. 14 – On Monday the 17th of March Pope Benedict XVI will preside, in the Redemptoris Mater Chapel located in the Vatican, a mass for Mons. Paulos Faraj Rahho, Chaldean archbishop of Mosul, who was … Continue reading

Brent Bozell III: Lewis Black, Anti-Catholic Hack

The president of the Media Research Center on Comedy Central’s latest blasphemous “entertainment”: Black is the star of a brand-new Comedy Central show, named “The Root of All Evil.” Comedians act like prosecutors, with Black as judge, trying to determine … Continue reading

World leaders condemn death of Iraqi archbishop

Mosul, Mar. 14, 2008 (CWNews.com) – As Archbishop Paulos Faraj Raho was buried on March 14, world leaders joined in condemning the kidnapping that led to the Chaldean prelate’s death. After seizing Archbishop Raho on February 29, in a bloody … Continue reading

Bodies Revealed

The TFP has published an article on the macabre spectacle which is touring American cities now: “Bodies Revealed.”