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NOTE: As of 1/8/08, the Archdiocese of Chicago has
informed me that there has been no change in the status of thr Fraternite of Notre Dame. This group is still in schism
as it continues to be out of communion with Rome. ~Bill
Another renegade and schismatic group is posing as so-called
"traditional" Catholics. It is called the Fraternite of Notre Dame. This organization has no more legitimacy
as Catholics than does the SSPX and the dozens of other organizations posing as Catholics but which are out of communion with
Rome. Their web address is http://www.fraternitenotredame.org. You'll also note their involvement with the godless UN.
This
group's "bishop," according to the geneology available on Terry Boyle's website, was consecrated in the Thuc line of schismatic
bishops. Click on this address for more: http://www.tboyle.net/Catholicism/Thuc_Consecrations.html
For the original article on the Thuc excommunications, click on
MISC. ARTICLES - Thuc in the navigation bar.
In Chicago, this group acquired an old Protestant church
and set themselves up. They are located in the crime-ridden, westside, Austin area of Chicago at 502 N. Central Avenue.
Patronization of this group by Catholics or providing them support has the same serious consequences (see the three
items listed at the top of the index page of this website) as for any group outside the Church.
Shown above is a copy of a bulletin released by the Chicago
Archdiocese concerning the FND and affirming that this organization is NOT Catholic.
Catholics need to be aware that by patronizing this group,
they are, in essence, working against the Church.
One of the projects in which this group engages is selling
French pastries at local Farmer's Markets. Here are a couple of pictures taken at a local market here in Elmhurst.
They were out there with all the other vendors setting up to sell their wares. I was there a little after six AM to
get these.
Interestingly enough, the FND seems to have an aversion
to photographs. Though I was on public property as was the "nun" in this picture, she adamantly protested my taking
pictures of their pastries or anything of their display. Makes you wonder what they've got to hide.
Also conspicuously absent from their table or display area is any mention
of the status of the FND with respect to the Catholic Church which would give warning to the numerous Catholics in Elmhurst
that this is not a Catholic group but one which is in schism.
I would imagine that if they ply their trade in this Farmer's Market
in Elmhurst, they probably do so at other locales in the Chicago Metropolitan area. Unsuspecting Catholics need to be
aware of this group posing as legitimate Catholics.
St. Roger's Abbey
Another thing Catholics need to know about
the schismatic FND is that they run a business called St. Roger's Abbey. This is a support organization for
the Fraternite as can be found on these webpages: http://www.strogerabbey.org/
The link from the FND website can be found here. Click on Support FND. On that page you can click on the link to see that this group sells pastries to
help the FND.
There two locations where you might run into this group:
Algonquin Commons, 1720 S. Randall, Algonquin,
IL, and
Elmhurst Public Library, 125 Prospect,
Elmhurst, IL
I am also given to understand that this group hawks their wares at
Elgin's Farmer's Market all summer.
If you buy from this group, St. Roger's Abbey,
you are helping the schismatic Fraternite of Notre Dame. If you live in these areas or know someone who does, warn
them that patronizing this group does not help the Church as they are not Catholics.
Shawn McIlhenny sent this and it was written by St. John of
the Cross. It's as appropriate for the pseudo-traditionalists of today as it was in his day --
Traditionalists?
By St. John of the Cross
"You will find that many of these
persons [spiritual gluttons] are very insistent with their spiritual masters to be granted that which they desire, extracting
it from them almost by force; if they be refused it they become as peevish as children and go about in great displeasure,
thinking that they are not serving God when they are not allowed to do that which they would. For they go about clinging to
their own will and pleasure, which they treat as though it came from God; and immediately their directors take it from them,
and try to subject them to the will of God, they become peevish, faint-hearted, and fall away. These persons
think that their own satisfaction and pleasure are the satisfaction and service of God...
These persons who are thus inclined to such pleasures
have another great imperfection, which is that they are very weak and remiss in journeying upon the hard road of the Cross;
for the soul that is given to sweetness naturally has its face set against all self-denial, which is devoid of sweetness...
And many of these would have God will that
which they themselves will, and are fretful at having to will that which He wills, and find it repugnant to accommodate their
will to that of God. Hence it happens to them that oftentimes they think that therein they find not their own will and pleasure
is not the will of God; and that on the other hand, when they themselves find satisfaction, God is satisfied. Thus they measure
themselves by God acting quite contrary to that which He Himself taught in the Gospel, saying: That he who should lose his
will for His sake, the same shall gain it and he that desires to gain it, the same shall lose it.
These persons likewise find it irksome when they
are commanded to do that wherein they take no pleasure. Because they aim at spiritual sweetness and consolation, they are
too weak to have the fortitude and bear the trials of perfection. They resemble those who run fretfully away from everything
that is hard, and take offense at the Cross, wherein consist the delight of the spirit. The more spiritual a thing is, the
more irksome they find it, for as they seek to go about spiritual matters with complete freedom and according to the inclination
of their will, it causes them great sorrow and repugnance to enter upon the narrow way, which says Christ, is the way of life."
St. John of the Cross: Dark Night of the
Soul Chapters VI and VII, pgs 55, 57, 59-60]
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