Author: Fr. Gregory Safreed, OSF

  • Pope Pius XII: Building A Path For The Future

    From “Vatican II Exposed as Counterfeit Catholicism” by Frs. Francisco and Dominic Radecki, CMRI In 1953, Pope Pius XII warned against a superficial understanding of the Catholic Faith. “Beware of being satisfied…with questions learned by heart without any understanding of their meaning.” Catholics were to understand the substance of the Faith, not just recite the…

  • Pope Pius XII And The Misreading Of His Life

    Continuing with “Vatican II Exposed as Counterfeit Catholicism”by Frs. Francisco and Dominic Radecki, CMRI Some Modernists falsely claim actions of Pope Pius XII helped them start the Modernist Church. Some traditionalists today erroneously believe Pope Pius XII instigated Modernist liturgical changes, promoted ecumenism and allowed Biblical skepticism and an unguided lay apostolate. They are both…

  • FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN, concluded

    From “Vatican II Exposed as Counterfeit Catholicism” by Frs. Francesco and Dominic Radecki, CMRI [Cardinal] Spellman naively believed that False Religious Liberty was an American concept that should be adopted by the Church even though Pope Pius IX had condemned it 100 years earlier. Unfortunately, the False Religious Liberty promoted at Vatican II did nothing…

  • Francis Cardinal Spellman And John XXIII

    Continuing with “Vatican II Exposed as Counterfeit Catholicism” by Frs. Francisco and Dominic Radecki, CMRI Following the death of Pope Pius XII on October 9, 1958, Spellman and other American cardinals formed an anti-Communist bloc to prevent the election of Cardinal Roncalli (the future John XXIII). Leading KGB official Mr. Broslow listed Roncalli and Montini…

  • FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN Archbishop of New York (1889-1967)

    From “Vatican II Exposed as Counterfeit Catholicism” by Frs. Francisco and Dominic Radecki, CMRI SPELLMAN AND POPE PIUS XII After being ordained in 1916, Francis Spellman studied at the North American College in Rome. In 1918, he served Cardinal O’Connell of Boston as assistant to the archdiocesan chancellor, becoming very proficient in financial matters. His…

  • Modernism XVIII

    From Vatican II Exposed as Counterfeit Catholicism by Frs. Francisco and Dominic Radecki, CMRI ARCHBISHOP FULTON SHEEN cont’ BISHOP OF ROCHESTER Sheen wrote 73 books, served as Auxiliary Bishop of New York under Cardinal Spellman from 1951—1965, became Bishop of Rochester from 1966—1969 and an honorary archbishop in 1969. “Bishop Sheen brought the thinking of…

  • Easter Sunday

    He is Risen: He is not here! The Corpse, laid by the hands of them that loved their Lord, on the slab that lies in that cave, is risen; and, without removing the stone that closed the entrance, has gone forth, quickened with a life which can never die. No man has helped him. No…

  • ARCHBISHOP FULTON SHEEN cont’d

    From Vatican II Exposed as Counterfeit Catholicism by Frs. Francisco and Dominic Radecki, CMRI EARLY MODERNISM WRITINGS It is difficult to fathom how Sheen could write like a Modernist in the 1930s, teach the Faith as a Catholic bishop in the 1950’s and early 60’s and then promote the New Theology (Modernism) from the mid…

  • Modernism XVI

    From Vatican II Exposed as Counterfeit Catholicism by Frs. Francisco and Dominic Radecki, CMRI ARCHBISHOP FULTON SHEEN Fulton Sheen was the most charismatic religious figure in American history. Peter Sheen, who was born in El Paso, Illinois on May 8, 1895, soon began to be called by his mother’s maiden name, Fulton. After Vatican II,…

  • Modernism XV

    From Vatican II Exposed as Counterfeit Catholicism by Frs. Francisco and Dominic Radecki, CMRI CARDINAL CUSHING, cont’d Cardinal Cushing founded the Missionary Society of St. James the Apostle in 1958 with diocesan priests and others from Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, the Philippines and Wales to be missionaries in the United States, Bolivia,…