Mgr McKenna- Lignée Thuc/Guerard des Lauriers

The Most Rev. Robert Fidelis McKenna, O.P. was born July 8, 1927. He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest for the Dominican Order in 1958 by Amleto Cardinal Cicognani.

After Vatican II, while working as a translator for his religious Order, he became increasingly concerned with the ramifications of the Vatican reforms, and finally removed himself from those in his Order with whom he felt he could no longer associate in good conscience.

He continued as a Dominican priest while joining other priests in the Orthodox Roman Catholic Movement (O.R.C.M. or ORCM) in 1973, an organization founded by Fr. Francis E. Fenton that represented itself as preserving the Catholicism from what its members viewed as radical changes in doctrine and liturgy. Fr. McKenna has remained at Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel since 1973, offering the true Mass and Sacraments to traditional Catholics who come for Mass on Sundays from as far away as New York, New Jersey, Rhodes Island and Massachusetts.

Fr. McKenna was consecrated a bishop on August 22, 1986 in Raveau, France by Mgr. Michel Guerard des Lauriers, O.P.

Bishop McKenna was also a noted exorcist, though due to his advanced age, he has given up taking any more cases. Bishop McKenna is also noted for his Catholics Forever newsletters, which he wrote for many years in the 1980's and 1990's.

At present Bishop McKenna continues to minister to the faithful at Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel where he continues in the capacity of confessor and spiritual director to the Dominican Sisters.

Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel
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Monroe, Connecticut 06468

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