The ORCM was instrumental in organizing the traditionalist movement in the U.S., enlisting other priests to provide the true Mass and sacraments across the country. Suffering a split in 1978 when Father Fenton with four of its 10 priests left to start an organization of their own in Colorado, the ORCM priests disbanded in 1982, each continuing on his own. In 1986 Father McKenna was ordained a Bishop by the late Bishop Guerard des Lauriers in France. Bishop Guerard had been a confidante of Pope Pius XII and was the author of the famous "Ottaviani Intervention" exposing the doctrinal errors of the New Mass (Novus Ordo).

Attached to the chapel is a convent of Dominican Sisters, formed by Bishop McKenna, who assist in the care of it and staff St. Dominic's Academy, a day school in the chapel hall for both grammar and high school boys and girls. A very small tuition is charged for students of parents in the chapel which includes an entrance fee for the books needed. Parents must agree to abide by the school regulations.

Traditional modesty regulations, as displayed on the front of the chapel, are strictly insisted on, as is silence in the chapel. "My house is the house of prayer." Those attending the New Mass in their parishes are welcome but must not at the same time receive Holy Communion here. We urge them rather to join our congregation here, "holding fast to the traditions we have learned," in the words of the Apostle, until order is restored to the Church.

Are we "under the Pope?" We reply, "Is there a Pope to be under?" That is the question to be faced by every honest Catholic in view of the unprecedented upheaval in Catholic doctrine, worship and discipline since "Vatican II". How can true Popes teach the doctrine of Ecumenism condemned by their predecessors, notably by Pope Pius XI some 30 years before the Council? How can true Vicars of Christ possibly approve a "new" Mass and modernized sacraments perfectly acceptable to non-Catholics? Six Protestant ministers in fact, of differing denominations, had a hand in drawing up the Novus Ordo Mass and were publicly thanked by Paul VI! No true Pope can any more mislead the faithful than can Christ, Whose visible Vicar on earth he is.

Is Bishop McKenna, without papal appointment, legitimately a Bishop? Yes, considering the extraordinary circumstances - the crisis indeed - of the Church today. The Church was not made for Canon Law, but Canon Law for the Church and the salvation of souls. No Bishops, no priests. No priests, then eventually no Church! That is the goal of her enemies within. "Strike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered."

Note

The traditional Latin Mass offered by Bishop McKenna is that proper to the Dominican Order, one of the ancient monastic variations in the standard Roman Rite approved by the Church. Though the Mass may be followed easily enough with a regular Roman Rite hand missal, booklets with the Dominican "Ordinary" section of the Mass are available in the bookstore for those who may wish to use it in conjunction with their Roman missal.

Daniel 8:11-13

"And I heard one of the saints speaking, and one saint said to another (I know not to whom he was speaking): How long shall the vision concerning the continual sacrifice, and the sin of the desolation that is made, and the sanctuary and the strength be trodden under foot?"

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