Forward to KofC and Serra Club Members

I am passing on an email that I received in reference to an upcoming conference (July 10-14) by the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy (CCC) :

With $500, one priest could attend the entire conference with room and board and enough left over for another priest to attend the conferences and have meals while staying somewhere else (hotel, rectory, friends, etc.) We have three rates available for the clergy: $300 for all talks, meals and accommodations; $150 for talks and meals only; $75 for conference talks only. We are getting a good rate for rooms at Catholic University ($50/night) since local hotels are over $100/night.

Any and all donations and contributions are welcome since our catering and transportation costs (we have to rent three vans) are all paid for by CCC funds (what little we have)

I wrote several years ago to the Supreme Knight of Columbus and to the President of the Serra Club. Neither replied or responded.

I asked for a donation from their national fund or something from a local chapter or council. No answer. God willing, one or both organizations may think differently.

The CCC is 100% orthodox and we were the ONLY national group of priests (700 members) to openly defend celibacy when 163 priests from Milwaukee called for its dissolution and got national publicity besides. We were one of the few groups of priests who openly supported then Cardinal Ratzinger’s letter to Cardinal McCarrick urging the withholding of Holy Communion from politicians who openly support abortion or euthanasia.

Thanks for your invaluable assistance.

Father John [Trigilio]

If you belong (or know someone who belongs) to the Knights of Columbus or the Serra Club, please pass this along. We need to support our priests, especially those who are faithful to Christ and His Church. If the authentic faith is to be handed on (true catechesis), it will only be accomplished by God's will and our receptive response to His grace in support of those whom He has called to the ministerial priesthood.

HT to Patte G for the update.