Brian Mershon column
Brian Mershon is a commentator on cultural issues from a classical Catholic perspective. His trade is in media relations, and his vocation is as a husband to his beloved wife Tracey and father to his seven living children. He attempts to assist his family and himself in attaining eternal salvation through frequent attendance at the Traditional Latin rite of Mass, homeschooling, and building Catholic culture in the buckle of the Bible Belt of Greenville, South Carolina.
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January 14, 2012
Work of Human Hands: A Theological Critique of the Mass of Paul VI
By Rev. Anthony Cekada
Copyright 2010 by Anthony Cekada
Published by Philothea Press
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Brian Mershon
January 13, 2012
This second part examination of the charges by a prominent "conservative" Novus Ordo priest that Catholic homeschool parents are elitists will provide some . . .
Brian Mershon
January 12, 2012
Many of you interested in the subject matter of Catholic homeschooling have probably read a recent Our Sunday Visitor story quoting a once-prominent and well . . .
Brian Mershon
December 22, 2010
The Ecumenical Vatican Council II: A Much Needed Discussion
By Msgr. Brunero Gherardini
Translated into English from by the Franciscans of the Immaculate
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Brian Mershon
August 27, 2010
August 24, 2010 — Superior General Bishop Bernard Fellay of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), one of four bishops whose excommunications were lifted by Pope . . .
Brian Mershon
May 12, 2010
Published May 11, 2010 at The Remnant (remnantnewspaper.com)
Houston, Texas — Superior General Bishop Bernard Fellay of the Society of St. Pius X recently . . .
Brian Mershon
February 20, 2009
(From The Remnant, Feb. 15, 2009)
By all accounts so far, 2009 has been a very challenging year for Neocon-variety Catholics. Still recovering from the shock . . .
Brian Mershon
February 14, 2009
(Originally appeared in The Remnant, January 28, 2009)
January 26, 2009, Rome, Italy — During this week of Christian Unity on the exact date of the . . .
Brian Mershon
November 18, 2008
Ten months ago, the long-anticipated document Summorum Pontificum was promulgated by the Holy See officially acknowledging what many Catholics have held for . . .
Brian Mershon
October 16, 2008
Initially published by The Remnant
In conjunction with Michael Matt's exclusive report from the priestly ordinations performed May 30 by Darío Cardinal . . .
Brian Mershon
July 11, 2008
Msgr. Camille Perl, Vice President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei (PCED) has recently responded with a letter dated May 23, 2008, to questions I . . .
Brian Mershon
August 16, 2007
Appeared online for The Remnant, on July 12, 2007, and in the July 15 print edition
Ecône, Switzerland — Bishop Bernard Fellay, Superior General of the . . .
Brian Mershon
August 7, 2007
Greenville, South Carolina — Noted author and commentator George Weigel's book Letters to a Young Catholic highlights St. Mary's parish, under the direction of . . .
Brian Mershon
July 27, 2007
Originally appeared online at The Remnant July 5, 2007
Fribourg, Switzerland — The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) elected now 37-year-old Fr. John . . .
Brian Mershon
July 2, 2007
Three curial cardinals and one archbishop have now spoken publicly on details of the expected motu proprio by Pope Benedict XVI reportedly easing restrictions . . .
Brian Mershon
April 10, 2007
From the March 31 issue of The Remnant
Darío Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos has repeatedly affirmed that the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) is not a case of formal . . .
Brian Mershon
April 3, 2007
Father Joseph Fessio, S.J., Publisher of Ignatius Press, and former Provost of Ave Maria University, was unexpectedly and suddenly dismissed from his position . . .
Brian Mershon
March 22, 2007
Monsignor Michael R. Schmitz, U.S. Provincial Superior for the Institute of Christ the King, Sovereign Priest, said the popularly called "reform of the reform" . . .
Brian Mershon
February 26, 2007
From the February 15 issue of The Remnant
After a plenary meeting of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei (PCED) December 12, 2006, Jorge Cardinal Medina . . .
Brian Mershon
January 4, 2007
From the Jan. 4 issue of The Wanderer, the oldest Catholic weekly in the United States
After months of rumors of a pending motu proprio that will reportedly . . .
Brian Mershon
December 6, 2006
From the Dec. 7 issue of The Wanderer, the oldest Catholic weekly in the United States
Fr. Joseph Fessio, SJ, provost of Ave Maria University in Naples, Fla. . . .
Brian Mershon
November 16, 2006
From the Nov. 23 edition of The Wanderer, the oldest U.S. Catholic weekly.
International Federation Una Voce (FIUV), and Una Voce America (UVA), in two . . .
Brian Mershon
November 2, 2006
From the Nov. 9 issue of The Wanderer, the oldest Catholic weekly in the U.S.
Up to 50 French priests and 10 French bishops have publicly stated their . . .
Brian Mershon
October 27, 2006
Thirty priests and at least five bishops from dioceses throughout France have expressed their public dissent against the reported soon-to-be released motu . . .
Brian Mershon
October 19, 2006
From the October 26 issue of The Wanderer.
Following an hour-plus long press conference in Paris October 14 by Bishop Bernard Fellay, the Superior General . . .
Brian Mershon
October 13, 2006
From the October 12, 2006, issue of The Wanderer.
The Holy See is preparing to issue a document affirming that the Classical Roman liturgy or Traditional . . .
Brian Mershon
October 3, 2006
From the October 5 issue of The Wanderer.
Oxford, UK — The prayers of the Church that every priest prays daily, the Divine Office, have been stripped of much . . .
Brian Mershon
September 21, 2006
Appears in the September 28, 2006 issue of The Wanderer.
OXFORD, United Kingdom — Shawn Tribe, from the increasingly popular "The New Liturgical Movement" . . .
Brian Mershon
September 18, 2006
Dario Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos announced the creation of the Institute of the Good Shepherd in a document released on the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed . . .
Brian Mershon
August 7, 2006
From the August 10 edition of The Wanderer
Since the official May 19 statement from the Holy See suspending Fr. Marcial Maciel, founder of the Legion of . . .
Brian Mershon
June 29, 2006
"Similarly, it must not be forgotten that from the beginning the Churches of the East have had a treasury from which the Western Church has drawn extensively in . . .
Brian Mershon
June 20, 2006
(From the June 22 edition of The Wanderer)
The great expectations of a pending "freeing of the Classical Roman rite of liturgy" have dissipated like April . . .
Brian Mershon
May 25, 2006
"And He (Our Lord Jesus Christ) said that whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me. But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones . . .
Brian Mershon
May 18, 2006
(From the May 25 edition of The Wanderer)
Father Marcial Maciel, founder of the Legionaries of Christ, one of the fastest-growing priestly communities in the . . .
Brian Mershon
May 11, 2006
(From the May 18 edition of The Wanderer)
Archbishop Raymond Burke, who previously consecrated his former Diocese of La Crosse, Wis., to the Sacred Heart of . . .
Brian Mershon
May 1, 2006
(From the May 4 edition of The Wanderer)
The Classical Roman rite of Holy Mass "was never abrogated" and "is consequently legitimate," Jorge Cardinal Medina . . .
Brian Mershon
April 4, 2006
(From the April 6 edition of The Wanderer)
This is the third and final part of a series of articles, taken from interviews with Msgr. Michael Schmitz, who is . . .
Brian Mershon
March 29, 2006
(From the March 30 edition of The Wanderer)
This article is the second of a three-part series based upon interviews with Msgr. Michael Schmitz, who heads up . . .
Brian Mershon
March 22, 2006
(From the March 23 edition of The Wanderer)
In light of reported activities at the highest levels of the Church to possibly find a canonical solution and . . .
Brian Mershon
February 1, 2006
"We're in the middle of the disintegration of the Latin rite" — Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz.
Bishop Fernando Rifan of the Apostolic Administration of St. John . . .
Brian Mershon
January 24, 2006
Pope Benedict XVI addressed his Roman Curia December 22 with an analysis of the reception of the Second Vatican Council after the past 40 years, and outlined a . . .
Brian Mershon
December 12, 2005
From the December 15 issue of The Wanderer Tel: (651) 224-5733 — Reprinted with permission
For those vaguely familiar with traditional Catholic circles, two . . .
Brian Mershon
November 30, 2005
From the December 1, 2005, edition of The Wanderer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Amidst buzz in Catholic circles about the possibility of an imminent freeing of the . . .
Brian Mershon
October 27, 2005
Remember Bishop Michael Sheridan of the diocese of Colorado Springs? Back prior to the 2004 presidential election, many Catholics hailed him for his defense of . . .
Brian Mershon
October 24, 2005
As the week wraps up, Catholics received a flurry of headlines from the Synod on the Eucharist in Rome. Also, toward the end of this week, Archbishop Chaput of . . .
