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Catholic Family News R.I.P.
« on: December 07, 2025, 08:39:41 PM »
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  • Catholic Family News R.I.P.

    Thank you and Farewell


    Dear Subscribers and Supporters of Catholic Family News,


    With sadness, the Board of Directors of Catholic Family News has made the difficult decision to close the paper.  The December issue of CFN will be its last.
    Catholic Family News began in 1993 as an occasional publication. When John Vennari became its editor in 1994, CFN became a monthly journal dedicated to promoting the Catholic Faith of all time.  As such, CFN upheld the Traditional Latin Mass, the Anti-Modernist measures of Pope St. Pius X, the Message of Our Lady of Fatima, the Social Kingship of Christ, and the richness, beauty, and holiness of “the faith once delivered to the saints” (Jude 1:3).


    John Vennari served as editor of Catholic Family News until his death in 2017.  He was a happy warrior and a beloved figure in the Traditional Catholic movement who combined trenchant analysis of Church affairs with incomparable wit and good humor.  Since his passing, Matt Gaspers, Dr. Brian McCall, and Murray Rundus ably continued CFN’s mission.


    Catholic Family News has always printed in-depth articles about Church issues. Unfortunately, such a business model is no longer viable today.  Over the past 20 years, as people turned to the internet to get instant news and analysis, more than 2000 newspapers in North America closed. Few people today, especially in the younger generations, read for pleasure, preferring instead to get information from videos and other digital offerings. Because of these trends, subscriptions to Catholic Family News have fallen to a point at which it is simply not financially viable to continue the paper.  In the upcoming months, subscribers to Catholic Family News will receive refunds for the outstanding portions of their subscriptions. 


    John Vennari was a close
    collaborator and friend of the late Father Nicholas Gruner, the Executive Director of The Fatima Center.  Like Father Gruner, John believed that fulfillment of the requests of Our Lady of Fatima is the only solution to the crises bedeviling the Church and the world today.  Catholic Family News has turned over its archives to The Fatima Center USA, which will preserve the legacy of Catholic Family News by featuring articles and videos from John and other,

     former CFN contributors that continue to have relevance.  The Fatima Center will also continue to promote the full Message of Fatima with more urgency than ever.  
    On behalf of the Boards of Directors of both Catholic Family News and The Fatima Center USA, thank you to Matt Gaspars, Brian McCall, and Murray Rundus for their excellent work on CFN.  Thank you also to all who supported, subscribed to, and contributed to CFN over the years.  Please continue to pray for the souls of John Vennari and Father Gruner.  Most importantly, please pray and offer sacrifices for Holy Mother Church suffering through her agony.  May we live to see the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart or die having done all we can to obtain the graces necessary for it.


    Andrew Cesanek, President of Catholic Family News



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    Re: Catholic Family News R.I.P.
    « Reply #1 on: December 08, 2025, 06:59:28 AM »
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  • Just curious of Michael Matt's reaction....


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    Re: Catholic Family News R.I.P.
    « Reply #2 on: December 09, 2025, 12:10:49 PM »
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  • I think it means the SSPX leadership believes they've won the hearts & minds of most faithful in the Trad wars.

    Like Tecuмseh Sherman, BP. Fellay has slashed & burned his enemies... which aren't modernist, but other traditional Catholics who would criticize his GREC vision. 



    He propagandized the evil sedes, and outlived most of his trad critics.

    Naive Catholics believed his schtick, where we must be beholden to the papal circus clowns Bergolio and Chicago Bob.

    He led his flock to Rome, 8 thousand strong to burn their incense.  

    No need for CFN propaganda rags anymore...the war is over. The SSPX is victorious.

    "Some preachers will keep silence about the truth, and others will trample it underfoot and deny it. Sanctity of life will be held in derision even by those who outwardly profess it, for in those days Our Lord Jesus Christ will send them not a true Pastor but a destroyer."  St. Francis of Assisi

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    Re: Catholic Family News R.I.P.
    « Reply #3 on: December 09, 2025, 12:29:18 PM »
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  • Two things of note I always remember about CFN:

    1. They refused to ever print the truth about Israel and 9-11.  (E. Michael Jones allowed the coverage by among other things having Robert Sungenis do an astounding cover story book review in Culture Wars extending into the immediate subsequent issue of Christopher Bollyn's record setting thorough expose of the Jews' in general and Israel's in particular center role in the planning, execution, and cover-up of 9-11.
     

    2.  They absolutely refused to place an ad for trad Catholic Hugh Akins book ѕуηαgσgυє Rising as seen, for example, at https://www.isoc.ws/product/akins-ѕуηαgσgυє-rising/


    ѕуηαgσgυє Rising: A Catholic Worldview of Anti-Christian Judaism and Counterrevolutionary Resistance


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    Re: Catholic Family News R.I.P.
    « Reply #4 on: December 09, 2025, 01:03:24 PM »
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  • And after 2012, they became a shill for the SSPX.  Before then, they had rarely covered any SSPX news. 

    After the SSPX rebranding and Jєωιѕн funding, things changed and CFN became an SSPX megaphone, especially after Fr. Gruner's death.
    "Some preachers will keep silence about the truth, and others will trample it underfoot and deny it. Sanctity of life will be held in derision even by those who outwardly profess it, for in those days Our Lord Jesus Christ will send them not a true Pastor but a destroyer."  St. Francis of Assisi


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    Re: Catholic Family News R.I.P.
    « Reply #5 on: December 09, 2025, 05:02:28 PM »
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  • And after 2012, they became a shill for the SSPX.  Before then, they had rarely covered any SSPX news.

    After the SSPX rebranding and Jєωιѕн funding, things changed and CFN became an SSPX megaphone, especially after Fr. Gruner's death.
    Brian McCall became the new editor of CFN after John Venari died.  His son attended Our Lady of LaSalette boys school(SSPX) and I believe his son became a priest for the SSPX.  

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    Re: Catholic Family News R.I.P.
    « Reply #6 on: December 13, 2025, 11:39:04 AM »
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  • There is ample evidence to debate that CFN was part of the controlled opposition. 

    John Vennari spent (14) years in Michael Dimond's monastery before leaving and joining Fr. Gruner's CFN operation.  Fr. Gruner  retained editorial control until he died.

    After Fr. Gruner died. CFN became more and more aligned with the neoSSPX.  

    They published SSPX advertisements, historical articles (mostly propaganda) and other SSPX approved news and opinions.

    The related operation, "The Fatima Center" was reorganized and many SSPX sycophants started working there. such as Fr. Albert.

    I firmly believe shutting down CFN was a Menzingen decision.

    "Some preachers will keep silence about the truth, and others will trample it underfoot and deny it. Sanctity of life will be held in derision even by those who outwardly profess it, for in those days Our Lord Jesus Christ will send them not a true Pastor but a destroyer."  St. Francis of Assisi

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    Re: Catholic Family News R.I.P.
    « Reply #7 on: December 13, 2025, 03:19:37 PM »
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  • There is ample evidence to debate that CFN was part of the controlled opposition.

    You appear to have a very strange definition of "evidence", and it leads to slanderous accusations on your part.  What is your "evidence", since you present absolutely none in the rant that follows this statement?

    Because he spent 14 years with Brother Natale?  It was right around the time that he left when the Dimond Brothers started to move toward sedevacantism, so something had change.  Bishpo Williamson spent decades with SSPX.  Did he change or did the SSPX change?  When there's a change, either on the person's part or the group's part, a departure under those conditions constitutes evidence of nothing.

    For no reason at all you "firmly believe" Menzingern shut down CFN ... as if what they state as the reason isn't at all plausible.  They're not wrong about the fact that printed publications simply cannot survive financially anymore ... and they were simply unable to adapt by figuring out ways to monetize the operation without suscribers paying a monthly fee to receive the publication.


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    Re: Catholic Family News R.I.P.
    « Reply #8 on: December 13, 2025, 06:12:01 PM »
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  • You appear to have a very strange definition of "evidence", and it leads to slanderous accusations on your part.  What is your "evidence", since you present absolutely none in the rant that follows this statement...

    ...For no reason at all you "firmly believe" Menzingern shut down CFN ... 
    Dear Incredulous - I agree with Lads...Same here.  If CFN was an unOfficial media outlet for the SSPX, why would they even consider eradicating it? To have more subscribers for "The Angelus Magazine"? et al...also ,expand your definition of 'controlled opposition' personally I don't even know what that means. Is it a type of agenda?
    So if you have a shred of evidence, I am sure many would like a p:mad:k.
    God bless+

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    Re: Catholic Family News R.I.P.
    « Reply #9 on: December 14, 2025, 08:50:13 PM »
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  • Dear Incredulous - I agree with Lads...Same here.  If CFN was an unOfficial media outlet for the SSPX, why would they even consider eradicating it? To have more subscribers for "The Angelus Magazine"? et al...also ,expand your definition of 'controlled opposition' personally I don't even know what that means. Is it a type of agenda?
    So if you have a shred of evidence, I am sure many would like a p:mad:k.
    God bless+


    TD,

    I think there's evidence the SSPX took over Fr. Gruner's trad publishing empire after he died.
    Fr. Gruner owned the second largest printing company in Canada and kept full editorial control over CFN.

    When Bp. Fellay celebrated Fr. Gruner's requiem Mass, this was the initial hint of this asset transfer.

    I could go through a host of CFN articles before and after Fr. Gruner's death that displayed purposeful misdirection and SSPX propaganda.  Since the loss of true bishops in America, CFN carried an exaggerated amount of influence and leverage within the TLM movement. 

    If I had time, I would research CFN back issues to give you links and article dates to prove my points. 
    But for time's sake, here are a few examples, off the top of my head:

    1st example: John Vennari & Fr. Gruner spent a few episodes, both CFN articles and Fatima Center interviews debunking the Cardinal Siri coup d'etat.  They said it didn't happen... so it meant we must trust their holey analysis.

    2nd example: Fr. Gruner knew there was a fake Sr. Lucy and he suppressed it so as not to alienate his novus ordo donors. He stated this in summer of 2009 to a casual group of Catholic men on the grounds of the Winona seminary at the SSPX ordinations.  He never ran this very important story in CFN.

    3rd example: After Fr. Gruner's death, CFN was used to embellish and glorify the SSPX's history.  One such story was retelling the myth of Princess Pallavicini, as a bulwark of Europe's Black Nobility.   She endorsed +ABL's TLM movement and the SSPX started to gain momentum.  The big problem with that story is that the Pallavicini's are one of Europe's highest ranked mobster families.

    4th example: I was paging through some CFN back issues around 2019 and came across a historical article on the Armenian genocide.  Well, in this pro-Jєωιѕн history, CFN (SSPX) was claiming how the jews suffered from the atrocity.
    Anyone who knows any truth about the Armenian genocide knows this is Jєωιѕн propaganda.

    Note: After the SSPX took the Jaihoff bribes in 2011, brokered by the jew lawyer, Maximilian Krah, they rebranded themselves.  Part of their new image was to be silent and sympathetic to Jєωιѕн interests.



    "Some preachers will keep silence about the truth, and others will trample it underfoot and deny it. Sanctity of life will be held in derision even by those who outwardly profess it, for in those days Our Lord Jesus Christ will send them not a true Pastor but a destroyer."  St. Francis of Assisi

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    Re: Catholic Family News R.I.P.
    « Reply #10 on: December 14, 2025, 08:59:24 PM »
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  • You appear to have a very strange definition of "evidence", and it leads to slanderous accusations on your part.  What is your "evidence", since you present absolutely none in the rant that follows this statement?

    Because he spent 14 years with Brother Natale?  It was right around the time that he left when the Dimond Brothers started to move toward sedevacantism, so something had change.  Bishpo Williamson spent decades with SSPX.  Did he change or did the SSPX change?  When there's a change, either on the person's part or the group's part, a departure under those conditions constitutes evidence of nothing.

    For no reason at all you "firmly believe" Menzingern shut down CFN ... as if what they state as the reason isn't at all plausible.  They're not wrong about the fact that printed publications simply cannot survive financially anymore ... and they were simply unable to adapt by figuring out ways to monetize the operation without suscribers paying a monthly fee to receive the publication.

    Lads,

    If you'd be so kind as to check with your CIA liaison, we can positively verify my accusation of SSPX control of Fr. Gruner's assets. 

    Secondly, Bro. Natale and the Dimonds are a trad propaganda/misdirection operation from the get-go. 

    That John Vennari spent (14) years there and then jumped into Fr. Gruner's propaganda publishing operation fits the MO.

    "Some preachers will keep silence about the truth, and others will trample it underfoot and deny it. Sanctity of life will be held in derision even by those who outwardly profess it, for in those days Our Lord Jesus Christ will send them not a true Pastor but a destroyer."  St. Francis of Assisi


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    Re: Catholic Family News R.I.P.
    « Reply #11 on: December 15, 2025, 02:13:55 AM »
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  • Lads,

    If you'd be so kind as to check with your CIA liaison, we can positively verify my accusation of SSPX control of Fr. Gruner's assets.


    Do you have any evidence that Ladislaus is connected to the CIA?

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    Re: Catholic Family News R.I.P.
    « Reply #12 on: December 15, 2025, 10:54:32 AM »
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  • TD,

    I think there's evidence the SSPX took over Fr. Gruner's trad publishing empire after he died.
    Fr. Gruner owned the second largest printing company in Canada and kept full editorial control over CFN.

    When Bp. Fellay celebrated Fr. Gruner's requiem Mass, this was the initial hint of this asset transfer.

    I could go through a host of CFN articles before and after Fr. Gruner's death that displayed purposeful misdirection and SSPX propaganda.  Since the loss of true bishops in America, CFN carried an exaggerated amount of influence and leverage within the TLM movement. 

    If I had time, I would research CFN back issues to give you links and article dates to prove my points.
    But for time's sake, here are a few examples, off the top of my head:

    1st example: John Vennari & Fr. Gruner spent a few episodes, both CFN articles and Fatima Center interviews debunking the Cardinal Siri coup d'etat.  They said it didn't happen... so it meant we must trust their holey analysis.

    2nd example: Fr. Gruner knew there was a fake Sr. Lucy and he suppressed it so as not to alienate his novus ordo donors. He stated this in summer of 2009 to a casual group of Catholic men on the grounds of the Winona seminary at the SSPX ordinations.  He never ran this very important story in CFN.

    3rd example: After Fr. Gruner's death, CFN was used to embellish and glorify the SSPX's history.  One such story was retelling the myth of Princess Pallavicini, as a bulwark of Europe's Black Nobility.  She endorsed +ABL's TLM movement and the SSPX started to gain momentum.  The big problem with that story is that the Pallavicini's are one of Europe's highest ranked mobster families.

    4th example: I was paging through some CFN back issues around 2019 and came across a historical article on the Armenian genocide.  Well, in this pro-Jєωιѕн history, CFN (SSPX) was claiming how the jews suffered from the atrocity.
    Anyone who knows any truth about the Armenian genocide knows this is Jєωιѕн propaganda.

    Note: After the SSPX took the Jaihoff bribes in 2011, brokered by the jew lawyer, Maximilian Krah, they rebranded themselves.  Part of their new image was to be silent and sympathetic to Jєωιѕн interests.


    Thank you for this, You have valid points.

    I finally found the French web site: Éditions Saint-Remi.
    To recognize 20 years of +Lefebvre's death, they had a WRITTEN CONTRACT with Joseph Lefebvre and the sister of +L to publish /sell a 3 Volumes set:
    Sermons de Mgr Marcel Lefebvre. Think 2011.
    Fsspx gave them 48 hour notice to appear in court, claiming ESRemi had abused the 2 seniors to acquire their signatures!!! The sister even had consulted her son (he also approved)..after 3 days to make her decision !
    Fsspx had done so very little in those 20 years to print the sermons, which explained why the family wanted the works to spread worldwide. 

    The judge finally agreed with Fsspx , on the grounds of "VRAISEMBLABLEMENT", [in all likelyhood]

    The rest is history ..
    Fsspx censors the works of Abp Lefebvre...

    http://catholicapedia.net/pages_html/esr-sermons_C1.html





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    Editions Saint-Rémi, Sermons de M Lefebvre
    « Reply #13 on: December 15, 2025, 11:28:49 AM »
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  • http://www.a-c-r-f.com/html/2011-04-04_LHR_ESR_FSSPX.html
    inofficial transltion. 

    Above this text is a very good letter...

    Mr. Saglio obtained from the relatives of Bishop Lefebvre still alive, his brother Joseph, 96, and his sister Mrs. Marie-Thérèse Toulemonde, 85, a warm, very encouraging, even enthusiastic agreement, each understanding the good that these sermons can do to souls.

    Of course, there was no contact made with the FSSPX. Since the death of Bishop Lefebvre, he(Saglio) told himself that he had not left a will. The ESR therefore had no reason to ask for any permission from the FSSPX, Bishop Lefebvre's brother and sister naturally appearing as the only beneficiaries.

    On March 25, the 20th anniversary of the death of Monsignor Lefebvre, the books (3 volumes) were available. Three days later (March 28) the FSSPX attacked, declaring that it had the exclusive rights of publication alone, and demanding that the ban on the dissemination of Bishop Lefebvre's sermons.

    The ESRs, not at all intimidated, defended themselves, the property being absolutely not clear, and the censorship for 20 years of these sermons constituting a scandal that can be seen by anyone, especially since the few rare sermons broadcast by the FSSPX were censored on important passages.

    The interim trial took place on Thursday, March 31.

    What was the surprise to discover that he was blamed on the ESR and Mr. Saglio, positions that are those of the Church of always, the Holy Catholic Church, and which were those of Bishop Lefebvre[3].

    This low blow is very serious.

    He confirms to us that the FSSPX has betrayed its founder, that it has sided with the enemies of the Catholic name, and that it is ready for anything!

    It's HUGE: censoring its founder! Betray its founder! Use the worst arguments of our enemies! Of course, they went through the camp of our worst enemies!

    The FSSPX is dead, there is now only one ersatz left: the Fellaysienne fraternity!

    They knew that their position on literary property was doubtful, so they attacked the person of Mr. Saglio, an old process well known to our enemies.

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    Re: Editions Saint-Rémi, Sermons de M Lefebvre
    « Reply #14 on: December 15, 2025, 11:54:07 AM »
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  • http://www.a-c-r-f.com/html/2011-04-04_LHR_ESR_FSSPX.html
    Unofficial translation.

    Above this text is a very good letter...

    Mr. Saglio obtained from the relatives of Bishop Lefebvre still alive, his brother Joseph, 96, and his sister Mrs. Marie-Thérèse Toulemonde, 85, a warm, very encouraging, even enthusiastic agreement, each understanding the good that these sermons can do to souls.

    Of course, there was no contact made with the FSSPX. Since the death of Bishop Lefebvre, he(Saglio?) told himself that he had not left a will. The ESR therefore had no reason to ask for any permission from the FSSPX, Bishop Lefebvre's brother and sister naturally appearing as the only beneficiaries.

    On March 25, the 20th anniversary of the death of Monsignor Lefebvre, the books (3 volumes) were available. Three days later (March 28) the FSSPX attacked, declaring that it had the exclusive rights of publication alone, and demanding that the ban on the dissemination of Bishop Lefebvre's sermons.

    The ESRs, not at all intimidated, defended themselves, the property being absolutely not clear, and the censorship for 20 years of these sermons constituting a scandal that can be seen by anyone, especially since the few rare sermons broadcast by the FSSPX were censored on important passages.

    The interim trial took place on Thursday, March 31.

    What was the surprise to discover that he was blamed on the ESR and Mr. Saglio, positions that are those of the Church of always, the Holy Catholic Church, and which were those of Mgr Lefebvre[3].

    This low blow is very serious.

    This confirms to us that the FSSPX has betrayed its founder, that it has sided with the enemies of the Catholic name, and that it is ready for anything!

    It's HUGE: censoring its founder! Betray its founder! Use the worst arguments of our enemies! Of course, they went through the camp of our worst enemies!

    The FSSPX is dead, there is now only one ersatz left: the Fellaysienne fraternity!

    They knew that their position on literary property was doubtful, so they attacked the person of Mr. Saglio, an old process well known to our enemies..."
    Excerpt comes from an elaborate French web page... I haven't read it all YET.

      I think this was written by Louis-Hubert Remy, April 2, 2011. The author had already seen the writing on the wall in 2011, so we can presume that this publisher knew more than the average Trad faithful. Interesting, no?
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